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100
Surfaces must be left wet for two full minutes after using these.
What are purple top wipes?
100
This is defined as the failure to provide needed care
What is neglect?
100
This is most commonly known as HIPAA, and makes patient information legally confidential.
What is the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act”?
100
Evaluations, dysphagia treatment, and e-stim are examples of these.
What are untimed procedure codes?
100
These are due every 10 visits or 30 calendar days, whichever comes first, and serve to justify continued treatment.
What are progress notes?
200
If your patient has c-diff, you must use these to clean equipment.
What are orange top wipes?
200
If you suspect a patient is the victim of abuse or neglect, this is what you should do.
What is REPORT IT?
200
If willful neglect and malicious motivations are present, this can cost you a minimum of $50,000 and 10
What is a HIPAA violation?
200
These codes are used to report a patient’s overall functional level throughout the course of treatment.
What are G-codes?
200
Describe skilled interventions, comorbidities that require the skills of a therapist to treat, and potential negative consequences of discontinuing treatment are all considered evidence of this.
What is documentation of medical necessity?
300
1) hand hygiene, 2) use of personal protective equipment (e.g., gloves, gowns, masks), 3) safe injection practices, 4) safe handling of potentially contaminated equipment or surfaces in the patient environment, and 5) respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette.
What are standard precautions?
300
Elderly people who have this memory disorder are at higher risk of abuse from caregivers.
What is DEMENTIA?
300
It is ok to do this if you need the information in order to perform your job.
What is access a patient’s chart?
300
This is the only note that requires 3 G codes instead of 2.
What is an eval/dc note?
300
Patient’s age, severity, acuity, multiple conditions, and motivation, or social circumstances such as the support of a significant other or the availability of transportation to therapy are example of these, and could influence the type, frequency, intensity and/or duration of treatment
What are complexities or complicating factors?
400
Air from these is exhausted to the outside (preferred) or HEPA-filtered prior to recirculation.
What are negative pressure or airborne infection isolation rooms?
400
Stealing money, checks, and/or possessions, or misusing funds are examples of this type of abuse.
What is FINANCIAL abuse?
400
When patient information is going to be shared with anyone for reasons other than treatment, payment or health care operations, you must have this.
What is the patient’s written authorization to release information?
400
If you spend more than 8 minutes but less than 23 with your patient, you can bill one of these.
What is one 15 minute timed unit of treatment.
400
According to CMS, these practitioners are not considered physicians for therapy services and may neither refer patients for rehabilitation therapy services nor establish therapy plans of care.
What are chiropractors and dental surgeons/dentists?
500
Supplemental measures utilized in addition to Standard Precautions which are needed to interrupt transmission of important pathogens.
What are Transmission Based Precautions?
500
A patient is withdrawn, cries frequently, and or their behavior changes suddenly when the caregiver enters the room. These may be signs of this type of abuse.
What is EMOTIONAL abuse?
500
Patient treatment, Payment for services, and Healthcare operations are the most common examples of this...
What is a HIPAA privacy exception?
500
This is added to a Medicare B patient’s bill when the bill for treatment has exceeded the cap, but medically necessity continues to be documented.
What is a KX modifier?
500
Modification of short term goals or changes in modalities and treatment approaches are examples of this, and do not require a physician’s signature or recertification.
What are insignificant changes to a plan of care?