Ambulatory Care
What is care devoted to surgical services that do not require overnight hospitalization?
National Practitioner Data Bank
What is a database of medical malpractice payments, adverse licensure actions, and certain professional review actions taken by health care entities.
Clinical Pathways
What are the tools designed to coordinate multidisciplinary care planning for specific diagnoses and treatments?
Community Health Conters
What offers comprehensive, primary healthcare services to patients who otherwise would have limited access to healthcare?
OASIS
What is the outcome assessment information set that holds the standard core assessment for home health and hospice and drives payment?
LTCH
What is a Long Term Acute Care Hospital for patients who are medically complex and require a greater than or equal to 25 days LOS?
MPI
What is a master patient index that's holds a PT-identifying directory referencing all patients related to an organization?
Observation Services
What are for outpatients that must include a physician's order for admission to an observation bed or unit as well as the time and date of the PT's admission and discharge?
Diagnostic Imaging Center
What is a free standing independent center that provides diagnostic testing only and does not use the testing results to determine the course of treatment for the patient?
Care focused on symptom management and pain relief.
ROI
What is release of information or the disclosure of PT information to legitimate users?
Data
What are the raw facts, characters, images, or symbols that, when recognized and processed to produce meaning, result in information?
Four sources of law that govern hospitals
What are: constitution, judicial law, statutory law, and administrative law?
Physician Query Form
What is the form that clarifies principle and secondary diagnoses while following AHIMA's standards for ethical coding?
What is the HIS or Hospice Item Set?
Willful Neglect
What is the intentional and conscious actions by the CE action when a specific and known act or omission takes place while leaving it well alone?
Nonclinical Information
What is administrative information collected to identify a patient at the onset or prior to admission or appointment?
Goal of HITECH
What is to increase healthcare quality, safety, and efficiency through the use of health information technology?
Advance Directive
What is the written document that describes the PT's healthcare preferences in the event the PT is unable to communicate?
Ancient healing technique that involves the insertion of very thin needles into points on the body to move energy (qi), thereby improving symptoms.
What is acupuncture?
Morbidity Statistics Calculation
What is the number of people who contracted the same disease during a specific time period compared to the number of people who have contracted the disease?
Clinical Documentation Specialist
Who is an individual who is chiefly responsible for reviewing the PT's record to determine whether it meets the criteria for high-quality clinical documentation?
Medicare COP
What must be met in order to remain compliant with CMS in order to receive reimbursement?
Skilled Nursing Facilities
What facilities provide a wide range of services to include nursing care, 24-hour supervision, assistance with activities of daily living, and rehabilitation services such as physical, occupational, and speech therapy?
Who holds the philosophy and practice that focuses on improving health and treating disease chiefly by assisting the body's intrinsic ability to recuperate from illness and injury-the healing power of nature.
Who are the naturopathic doctors?