Acute Vs Chronic | All about the HCC's | Disease Categories | Truth Be Told | Miscellaneous |
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What is Acute and Chronic?
____ is a diagnosis lasting three months or less, ____ is diagnosis lasting three months or longer.
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What is HCC?
Hierarchical Condition Category is abbreviated as what acronym.
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What is COPD?
Chronic Obstructive Bronchitis maps to this HCC, but Asthma does not.
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What is False?
Depression listed as a diagnosis is sufficient enough to capture the Major Depressive Disorders HCC.
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Who is David Suh?
The name of our new VP of Risk Adjustment Programs
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What is Unstable Angina and Stable Angina?
____ Angina is Acute, ____ Angina is Chronic, both map to HCC's.
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What are HCC's?
The higher the number, the lower the value, these are cumulative and help establish diagnoses value for Medicare.
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What is Coagulation Defects?
Anemia and being on Anti-coagulants do not map to this HCC.
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What is False?
Coronary Artery Disease maps to the Vascular Disease HCC.
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What are chronic conditions?
Joe/Josephine has to have at least five of these to be eligible for Landmark's Program
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What is DM with Acute Complications, DM with chronic complications and DM without complications?
List the three levels of Diabetes with/without complications in order of their HCC category listing.
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What is HCC Category List?
There are 189 categories/descriptions in this HCC list
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What is Stage 4, Stage 5 and End Stage?
These stages of Kidney Disease are the only ones that map to an HCC.
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What is True?
Long Term Insulin Use by itself is an HCC.
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What is Metastatic Cancer?
You must code both the primary location and secondary site(s) for this type of cancer.
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What is four weeks?
Acute Myocardial Infarction can be counted as an HCC for how long after the MI.
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What is Risk Adjustment Factor?
RAF stands for what?
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What is Significant Endocrine Disorders?
DM and hyper/hypothyroid are often mistakenly mapped to this HCC category.
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What is True?
Pressure ulcers need to be staged, DM ulcers do not need to be staged.
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What is Measured, Evaluated, Assessed, Treated?
The acronym MEAT stands for _______
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What is Acute Leukemia?
This type of Leukemia has a higher HCC value and usually occurs in children more often than adults.
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What is HIV?
This is the highest level HCC category.
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What are major depression, alcohol/drug dependence and leukemia/lymphoma?
These diseases, even in remission, still map to an HCC.
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What is True?
Complications of a Specified Implant can only be captured at the initial visit for this diagnosis, not as a subsequent or sequelae visit.
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What is six?
We currently have how many markets currently open/active at Landmark.
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