The patient registration record consists of a list of the problems associated with the patient’s illness.

The nursing student is discussion living options for elderly clients.   Which statement by the student nurse is most accurate in regard to the elderly population? 

If a diagnosis is listed by the physician as “wedge compression fracture of the fifth lumbar vertebra,” which word should be referenced in the alphabetic index of the ICD-10 manual?

List 2 characteristics of CONTEXT-DEPENDENT communicators. 

What is the first section of the CPT manual?

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are used to classify patients by diagnosis in order to gather statistics for National Center for Health Statistics

A doctor who participates in Medicare performs a service for which he or she ordinarily charges $350. How much should the physician charge Medicare?

Which of the following abbreviations or punctuation indicates that a more specific ICD-9 or ICD-10 code cannot be identified?

What is the meaning of the “10” in the abbreviation ICD-10-CM?

The nurse is collecting a client’s urine sample.  Which of the following will the nurse document as an unexpected finding? (Select all that apply.)