Chat with us, powered by LiveChat HCAD 640 UMDC Financial Compliance and Ethical Decision Making Discussion - STUDENT SOLUTION USA

Many of the regulations you have read about this week were developed from prior actions within the medical community that warranted changes to be made to protect patients, individuals, investors, and other stakeholders. The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 was born out of several accounting scandals at the time. One of these accounting scandals was HealthSouth Corp., the nation’s largest provider of outpatient surgery, diagnostic and rehabilitative healthcare services at the time (Sec.gov, 2003). Discuss the importance of fair and accurate financial reporting in the healthcare industry in a few paragraphs of 250 words. Be sure to support your statements through research/credible sources in APA style.

HIMS 655- Discussion Topic: Accessing Your ICD-10=CM/PCS Coding Skills

As you continue to learn about the importance of coding in the reimbursement cycle, use the scenario below  and  answer the following questions :

Code resource:

http://www.icd10data.com/

A patient visits the clinic where he is treated by his psychiatrist for chronic pain syndrome that is causing his depression. During the work up his blood pressure is elevated and he has complaints of frequent headaches.

1. What was the primary reason for the visit?

2. What is the keyword you will use to look up the primary reason?

3. What other problems need to be coded

4. What indexes do you need to use to determine code selection

5. How are the questions answered used in the reimbursement cycle: a step of the cycle, the purpose of the code, who generates to code, and how the monetary value  is decided?

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