board vitals NIS

Question 1

the process by which individual components of a complicated procedure are combined into one code for the purposes of billing is known as what?

Answer 1

Bundling

refers to a process by which individual components of a complicated procedure are combined into one code for the purposes of billing

Question 2

What is PQRS

Answer 2

Physician Quality Reporting system,

Medicare incentive system that provides cash incentives to physicians who reports quality clinical data on prescribed treatments for certain medical conditions.

Question 3

Provides information about medical services and procedures to provide uniformity across physicians, coders, patients, payers, and accreditation organizations

Answer 3

CPT (current procedural terminology) codes

Question 4

Despite numerous systems in place to help avoid adverse events, they are likely to occur. What resiliency efforts are made to give attention to adverse events detection and mitigation before they occur?

Answer 4

Building on insights from high reliability organizations and have resourceful providers at the point of care

Resiliency efforts are proactive, not reactive, anticipating an adverse event rather than exploring the effects of a previous failure. They build on insights from high reliability organizations, have complex adaptive systems, and have resourceful providers at the point of care, resilience is view as a critical system property. It reflects that organizations capacity to bounce back in the face of continuing pressures and challenges when the margins of safety have become thin.