Chapter 10
CDI.
What is clinical documentation improvement?
This is why LTCHs patients have several more secondary diagnoses than a patient with a STACH stay.
What is longer length of stay?
CAA.
What is Care Area Assessment?
MAC.
What is Medicare administrative contractor?
VHA.
What is veterans health administration?
ASC.
What is ambulatory surgical center?
STACH.
What is short term acute care hospital?
ADL.
What is activities of daily living?
OBRA.
What is omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1987?
FERPA.
what is family educational rights and privacy act of 1974?
AAAHC.
what is accreditation association for ambulatory health care?
LTCH.
What is Long term acute care hospital?
The COP in both Medicare and Medicaid programs require this to be completed within 14 days.
What is the resident assessment?
This needs to be completed on Medicaid and Medicare patients.
What is OASIS?
This is the coding system used by dentists.
What is Current dental terminology?
This is a measure of the NCQA.
What is HEDIS?
The regulatory bodies for LTCH include CMS, state specific and this.
Who is the joint commission?
Each Medicare resident must have this executed and signed by the physician.
What is the Medicare Part A certification and recertification?
Hospice benefits include these.
What is drugs and pharmaceuticals?
This is the use of medical information transmitted from one site to another via electronic communications to improve the patient's health stats.
What is telemedicine?
This can be completed 30 days prior to surgery but it needs to be updated on the day of surgery.
What is the H and P?
The primary differences between these are length of stay, complexity of patients, and ER service availability.
What are the long term care hospital and short term acute care hospital?
This includes the MDS, CAA and the resident assessment instrument utilization guidelines.
What is the RAI?
inadequate documentation of this is the number one cause of medical review denials in home health.
What is face to face encounters?
critical access hospitals must have this amount or fewer acute care inpatient beds.
What is 25?