WCM History
The decade WCM was founded
When was the 1890's?
HIPAA
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
Procedure Code used to track and to inform payors regarding medical procedures
What is a CPT or HCPCS code?
Another work for non-cancerous
What is benign?
The term for receiving a gift of nominal value in exchange for referrals.
What is a kickback?
The test invested at WCM that has saved millions of women from cervical cancer
What is the Pap Smear?
QPS
What is Patient Quality & Safety?
Entity that created ICD codes
What is the World Health Organization?
Broken bone or cartilage.
What is a fracture?
The common name for the required policy that protects people from retaliation or retribution who report unethical or illegal behavior.
What is a Whistleblower Policy?
Other than NYP, name two of the three biggest research/hospital affiliations with WCM
What are: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), Hospital for Specialty Surgery (HSS) and Rockefeller University?
NewYork-Presbyterian's PSA
Patient Services Administration
Incident to billing is particular to this setting.
What is a physician office?
A single word meaning the return of disease or symptoms after a patient has recovered
What is a relapse?
The term used to describe reporting an overpayment to the government
What is self-disclosure?
The capital city that Weill Cornell Qatar is located
What is Doha?
FERPA
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?
The modifier that signifies same-day significant, separately identifiable E/M service
What is Modifier 25
The outer layer of the skin.
What is the epidermis?
According to the OIG, what are practices that, directly or indirectly, result in unnecessary costs to federally funded programs, such as overusing services.
What is waste?
The chairman of the board of fellows of Weill Cornell Medicine and the daughter of Joan and Sandy Weill
Who is Jessica Bibliowicz?
HITECH
What is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act?
The prolonged code used for initial Inpatient or Observation visits for Medicare only patients
What is G0316 (in addition to 99223)?
An electronic version of a patients medical history, that is maintained by the provider over time, and may include all of the key administrative clinical data relevant to that persons care under a particular provider, including demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports.
What is the Electronic Health Record?
What law outlines non-crimilar fines associated with fraud, waste and abuse
What is the Civil Money Penalties Law?