Which of the following BEST defines the Drug Enforcement Agency?
A. The federal law enforcement agency responsible for the identification and control of drug use, abuse, and smuggling in the United States
B. Developed in 1996, a set of guidelines intended to reduce incorrect coding and improper overpayments or underpayments through the identification of codes that may or may not be utilized together or that are medically unlikely
C. The official standardized claim form that must be completed and utilized when submitting any Medicare or Medicaid claim
D. A unique number required by Medicare to identify each individual qualified healthcare provider and each individual healthcare organization; must be used when reporting any healthcare service that has been performed by the individual provider and/or healthcare organization
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Q. 2) Which of the following BEST defines the national provider identifier?
A. A unique number required by Medicare to identify each individual qualified healthcare provider and each individual healthcare organization; must be used when reporting any healthcare service that has been performed by the individual provider and/or healthcare organization
B. The federal law enforcement agency responsible for the identification and control of drug use, abuse, and smuggling in the United States
C. Developed in 1996, a set of guidelines intended to reduce incorrect coding and improper overpayments or underpayments through the identification of codes that may or may not be utilized together or that are medically unlikely
D. The official standardized claim form that must be completed and utilized when submitting any Medicare or Medicaid claim
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Q. 3) __________ the book of numeric and alphanumeric codes that identify and describe the healthcare service provided to the patient; maintained and published annually by the American Medical Association
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Q. 4) __________ the standardized amount of intraservice time usually spent by a physician performing this specific E/M service
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Q. 5) __________ the location in which an E/M service visit occurs
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Q. 6) __________ the dialogue between the physician and the patient during which the physician provides additional information regarding the disease process, expected prognosis, diagnostic procedures or results, treatment or management options, the necessity for compliance, or any other unanswered questions from the patient and/or family, and managed sharing of medical findings, management options, and treatment plans between two or more participants in the patient's healthcare
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Q. 7) __________ the amount of time the physician spends performing an E/M service
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Q. 8) __________ standardized requirements for medical documentation as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 1995 and 1997
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Q. 9) __________ a patient who has received professional, medical, or other healthcare services from a specific physician, or from another physician of the exact same specialty and subspecialty who also belongs to the same group practice, during the 3 years prior to the evaluation and management service in question
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Q. 10) __________ a patient who has not received any professional, medical, or other healthcare services from the physician, or from another physician of the same specialty or subspecialty who belongs to the same group practice, during the three years prior to the evaluation and management service in question
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