Author Question: How will patients be affected by the change from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS? A) The amount of time ... (Read 25 times)

Charlie · **on:** Jul 12, 2018

How will patients be affected by the change from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS?

A) The amount of time to send a patient a bill will take at least three times longer.
B) The amount of time to provide copies of records will increase significantly.
C) The healthcare providers' budgets will balloon due to ICD-10-CM/PCS costs, so services provided for patients may be reduced.
D) Any change will most likely be negligible. The code set used for assigning codes is generally unseen by patients.

Question 2

Known causes of epilepsy include all of the following EXCEPT:

A) TIA.
B) alcoholism.
C) brain tumor.
D) birth trauma.
E) celiac disease.