Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Chapter, Module

Like Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®), the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) is a code set for billing services and procedures. Unlike CPT, HCPCS is also used to bill supplies, products, durable medical equipment (DME), prosthetics, orthotics, outpatient hospital care, ambulance rides, and certain drugs and medicines provided to Medicare patients and private health insurance program beneficiaries. In general, users deploy HCPCS for services, procedures, and equipment not covered by CPT codes

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Current Procedural Terminology Chapter, Module

Current Procedural Terminology (CPT ® ) is a medical code set used for describing and reporting medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and procedures. Copyrighted and published by the American Medical Association (https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/cpt)since 1966 and updated yearly by the Performance Measures Advisory Group (PMAG), these codes foster better data collection so that performance measurement is facilitated, and are often used for accreditation purposes to explain results and practices. Originally developed as a method of communication between physicians and third-party payers and intended to be used for reimbursement, current applications include usage in: benchmarking activities (Garber, Ledonio, & Polly, 2015), risk prediction and trend analysis (Ehlers et al., 2017), planning activities (Shayver, et al., 2011), and use of quality indicators (Shiner, et al., 2012). Kahn, et al., (2016)argue that efforts to harmonize coding, including CPT codes between independent claims databases have impacted secondary usage of electronic health record data including better operational analytics, quality improvement, and research

Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism

Paraphrase What is it? Including ideas or information from an original source in your paper How do I comply? Must be rephrased in your own words. Use as few original words as possible- good rule of thumb: no more than two words from the source in a ro

Not too small to be strategic: The state of academic program review guidelines and instrumentation in public institutions

In higher educational settings, the academic program review process allows academic units to solicit feedback, make data-driven decisions regarding effectiveness and sustainability, and report to stakeholders. In order to discover trends and best practices in the current state of academic program review in higher education, examined was a sample of 53 processes representing a range of small-to-large public institutions in the United States in the categories of associate-degree granting, bachelors-degree granting, and masters-degree granting. Using a content analysis methodology, outcomes assessment and the use of data results featured prominently with 86.7% of the sample requiring their incorporation in academic program review, followed closely by judgments of resource adequacy and demonstration of program necessity and efficiency

Higher Educations’ Institutional Transparency of General Education Competencies, Assessment Measures, and Analysis of Assessment Data

With general education coursework comprising a significant portion of associate and bachelor degree curriculum, conveying the content and importance of student competencies to stakeholder audiences has never been more important. Accreditation pressure and accountability measures are influencing a focus on improving the presentation of competencies aligned to their assessment measures. This study examines the extent to which institutions publicly and proactively disclose relevant information regarding assessment of the general education curriculum. Examined are websites of 71 higher education institutions, representing a range of public settings in all American regions. Results show variability in the alignment of objective to measure and reveal current themes and emphasis regarding how competencies relate to coursework. Provided are recommendations for improving institutional presentation

Introduction to Medical Coding, Introductory Module

In our increasingly global economy, manufacturers and distributers sending and receiving goods are frustrated by the reality of multiple languages. As an example of corporate coding, proactive management in an automotive company have invented a coding system where each car type has its own identification code with associated words that describe the product. Therefore, they can be confident that anyone referring to ID 4523 is describing a four-door vehicle (4000 level), compact vehicle (500), black color (20) with leather interior (3). This example is analogous to clinical or medical coding

Investigation of Factors Relating to the Web-based Presentation of Policy and Information on Campus Firearm Policy and Smoking Policy

In order to explore themes of privilege in regard to policy availability, language accessibility, and underlying bias, policies related to two topics of interest to higher education campus visitors, campus firearm carry policy and smoking policy, are explored to determine how Web-based information is presented to various audiences. Implications of policy accessibility are compelling; language barriers can adversely affect access to campus events and educational services. Representative samples of policies of five states that allow some form of open or concealed campus firearm carry were studied to determine possible factors of importance. Representative samples of two additional states in the more restrictive continuum of the campus carry issue were also studied as a control. In addition, policies relating to smoking were examined to determine themes related to overall policy presentation approach. Findings indicate that few Websites facilitate the provision of translated policy, and that few options exist for easy translation of policies into other languages at the point of origin. In addition, this study presents evidence that the recentness of legislative activity and desire to mitigate visitor concerns may be considered as factors impacting policy availability

Perspectives of academic web content managers on the effectiveness of web publishing and web hosting policies

The development of policy to handle the increasingly diverse issues that arise from web content management is becoming a concern for academic institutions. An exploratory investigation that seeks institutional web content manager perspectives from higher educational settings on current web publishing and hosting policy and issues is presented as a mixed-method research design, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, to investigate how field factors influence policy creation. A web-based version of a survey instrument was designed, piloted, and implemented for this investigation, and data is presented, and discussed in relation to current field literature. Findings indicate that web hosting and publishing policies increasingly fall under the purview of institutional Communications or Public Relations departments and that policy elements concerning web content do not yet match field recommendations in several key areas

Detection, isolation and characterization of marine methanotrophs

In order to investigate the occurrence of methanotrophs in the marine environment, representative organisms have been isolated from seawater. As traditional methods for isolating and cultivating methanotrophs were found to be unsuccessful when applied to the marine environment, new techniques for methanotroph isolation were developed. These were used to enrich for methanotrophs in several marine areas. Two bacteria isolated from marine areas have been extensively characterized. Both isolates appear to be typical of Type I methanotrophs and have an absolute requirement for sodium chloride. The nitrogen assimilation of the isolates was studied in detail. Both isolates appear to have unusual nitrogen assimilation pathways. A method for detecting methylotrophs and methanotrophs without cultivation has also been developed. The polymerase chain reaction has been adapted to amplify DNA sequences specific to methylotro~ls and methanotrophs. This has been used to detect amplify DNA sequences in DNA extracted from water samples from a range of fresh water and marine environments. The methods has been demonstrated to be specific for methylotrophic and methanotrophic DNA. DNA from non-methylotrophic bacteria was not amplified. Initial studies on the application of this method for enumeration has also been studied. An investigation into the occurrence of methanotrophs in the Southern Ocean was also carried out. Methanotrophic activity was examined in two areas of the Southem Ocean. This was compared with the methane concentration in the water and total bacterial activity