A service that is performed by a physician is considered an incident to service.
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Q. 2) Evaluation and Management services are complex services comprised of a number of components, requirements and guidelines. Please identify what you have found the MOST helpful aspect of E/M services, medical documentation of E/M service, and E/M coding.
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Q. 3) Evaluation and Management services are complex services comprised of a number of components, requirements and guidelines. Please identify what you have found the most challenging aspect of E/M services, medical documentation of E/M service, and E/M coding.
What will be an ideal response?
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Q. 4) Different categories of E/M service require the documentation of the content of service to report correctly the performed service, while other categories of E/M service do not require the documentation of content of service to report correctly the performed service. Select one category of an E/M service that requires the documentation of the content of service and compare these two categories of service, addressing the specific aspects of the performed service, as well as the documentation requirements.
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Q. 5) How do the helpful tools and information provide support when reviewing medical documentation of E/M service visits? Explain how the NCCI edits, Medicare Claims Processing Manual, and CMS provide useful resources, support to the 1995, 1997 Documentation Guidelines, and the CPT manual.
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Q. 6) Incident to services can be useful; however, the guidelines for incident to services can be very confusing. Explain how the guidelines for incident to services and shared/split visit are different from an E/M service performed by a physician.
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Q. 7) Initial comprehensive preventive medicine services are any preventive medicine services that occur after the first comprehensive preventive medicine service that is performed for a patient by the physician.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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Q. 8) Medical documentation is the record of healthcare provided to the patient at the healthcare facility, which may be in the form of handwritten or typed narratives, reported diagnostic results, diagnostic images or scans, or other records.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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Q. 9) Medicare is a federal insurance program that provides insurance for people of the United States over the age of 65 and for those with disabilities, or anyone with end-0state renal disease; founded in 1965 and monitored by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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Q. 10) Which of the following BEST defines an observation status?
A. Any category of E/M services that occur in a clinical location that does not require the patient to be admitted for evaluation and management; most commonly identified as a clinical setting to which a patient presents for medical care and then leaves after the service is completed, such as a physician's clinic office
B. Any of the numeric codes representing E/M services that may be reported only in conjunction with a different E/M service and may never be listed independently
C. Any category of E/M services that occur when the patient has been admitted to a hospital setting for the purpose of evaluation and/or treatment
D. The designation given when the patient's clinical presentation requires the physician performing the E/M service to closely monitor the patient's health before a final determination can be made
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