Acute Vs Chronic | Medical Acronyms | Disease Categories | Truth Be Told | IE- Conditions |
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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 Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
UC and Crohn's map to this HCC category, but IBS 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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What is the Hemiplegia/Hemiparesis HCC?
This condition can be coded if there is some degree of muscle weakness involving the ipsilateral (same side) arm and leg. Usually a sequelae of a CVA.
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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 is COPD?
Chronic Obstructive Bronchitis maps to this HCC, but Asthma does not.
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What is Coagulation Defects?
Anemia and being on Anti-coagulants do not map to this HCC, but thrombocytopenia and senile purpura do.
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What is False?
Coronary Artery Disease maps to the Vascular Disease HCC.
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What is Peripheral Vascular Disease?
Indicators of this condition are:
Calcification found on x-rays. Decreased or absent distal pulses, loss of hair on feet or distal extremities cool and atrophic /thin skin, symptoms of claudication. |
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 PE/DVT?
History of this diagnosis will not map to an HCC, but the chronic condition of this diagnosis will map to an HCC.
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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 Rheumatoid Arthritis?
To confirm the presence of this condition:
review Labs and Consultation notes patient may be on DMARDS. |
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?
This is what RAF stands for.
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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 protein-calorie malnutrition?
According to the ASPEN guidelines, two or more of the following characteristics indicate this diagnosis
1. 10% unintentional WL in 6-12 months OR 2. 5% unintentional WL in 3-6 months OR 3. BMI < 18.5 OR 4. Albumin < 3.4 OR 5. Co-morbidity hindering normal intake (G-tube or persistent nausea, or active dysphagia) OR 6. Poor nutrition or loss of appetite, or seriously curtailed intake of food OR 7. Marked reduction in physical capacity OR 8. Diminished functional status, as measured by hand grip strength OR 9. Wasting appearance or muscle wasting. |
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 Metastatic Cancer?
This has the highest level HCC RAF score.
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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 Major Depression, Alcohol/Drug Dependence and Leukemia/Lymphoma?
These (5) diseases, even in remission, still map to an HCC.
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