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I & R Issue chap 5

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Legal newspaper published every business day by the national archives and records administration   Federal Register  
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Contain new and changed Medicare policies and/or procedures that are to be incorporated into a specific CMS program   Program transmittals  
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An organization that contracts with CMS to process fee for service health care claims and perform program integrity tasks for both Medicare part A and Part B   Medicare administrative contracter  
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The assignment of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes that does not match patient record documentation for the purpose of illegally increasing reimbursement   Upcoding  
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The storage of documentation for an established period of time.   record retention  
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An intentional description of misrepresentation that someone makes knowing it it is false that could result in an unauthorized payment.   Fraud  
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Involves actions that are inconsistent with accepted sound medicall business or fiscal practice.   Abuse  
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2 examples of fraud   1.Misrepresent the diagnosis to justify payment 2.Unbundling Codes  
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2 examples of Abuse   1. excessive charges for services2. violation of PAR agreements with insurance companies  
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Pairs of HCPCS and/or CPT Codes   CCI Edits  
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major procedure of service code   Column 1 Code  
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lesser procedure code   Column 2 code  
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Procedures or services that could not reasonably performed at the same session   Mutually exclusive codes  
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Reporting bundling procedure codes in addition to the major procedure code is characterized as _____________.   Unbundling  
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The practice of Unbundline Occurs because   Provider's coding staff unintenionally reports multiple codes based on misinterpreted coding guidelines-reporting of multiple codes is intentional and is done to maximize reimbursement  
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Assigned to third party payers   national health planID  
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put on hold by congress   national individual identifier  
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Assigned to healthcare rpoviders   national provider identifier  
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Assigned to employers   national standard employer identification number (EIN)  
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