Speaking Healthcare Basics

What comes first, the ICD or the CPT?

• The ICD, because without at least a prognosis, we cannot even begin to render a procedure.

• The CPT, because without the CPT, a health insurance claim cannot be filed.

If you had to pick one thing, tell me what the most important thing, activity, or routine you did this week at PediaHealth.

Learning to list and write ICD and CPT codes ...

• Isn't really important, because none of us are medical billers.

• Is important because medical codes appear in charts, lab orders, referrals, and notes from specialists.

What goes together?

• Procedures, treatments and other medical services.

• HPI

• Diagnoses and health statuses.

• CPT

• Billing office.

• Kareo PM

• Billing system.

• ICD

When a new patient attends a first wellness appointment...

• When a new patient attends a first wellness appointment, the appointment is the first wellness visit they've ever attended in their lives.

• When a new patient attends a first wellness appointment, the appointment is their first wellness visit according to their history with their health plan or health insurance coverage.

Answer explanation

If in 2021, 5-year-old Patient attends a wellness appointment with coverage from HPMG, the visit is marked with 99383. But if next year, the patient attends her wellness, and instead of HPMG has HPSM, 99383 is still marked on the appointment type, because HPSM will not have the patient's wellness records yet. 99383 simultaneously tells HPSM that an initial health assessment was performed on this date.

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HPSM

Public Payers

CPT Codes

CPT Wellness Codes

99383

Increasing our fluency in health care language basics ...

• Increases the quality of patient care.

• Contributes to increasing public health.

• Increases the time we have to spend on administrative work.

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Pair the proper nouns with the generic terms.

• Software application

• Browser

• Google Chrome

• Vonage

• Billing system

• Operating system

• Microsoft Windows

• Kareo PM

• Phone system

• Chrome Remote Desktop

Answer explanation

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Healthcare Systems

Medical Systems

Patient Systems

Adopting standards and conventions such as abbreviations of vaccine names from medical and scientific authorities...

• Only makes things harder for us at PediaHealth.

• Ensures that our charts are compatible full and interoperable with the organizations that we are required to share health and medical data with.

• Is a HIPAA requirement.

Answer explanation

Health and medical data sharing increases access to health and medical resources which in turn increases patient outcomes:

https://www.aha.org/system/files/2019-01/Report01_18_19-Sharing-Data-Saving-Lives_FINAL.pdf

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