The omnibus
budget
reconciliation
act of 1987
affects which
group of
patients?

Amedical coder billing for a hospital inpatient stay would use a/ancms-1500 claim form. b. ub-98 claim form. c. cms-1250 claim form. d. ub-04 claim form.

Which of the following is not considered a lymph node function? to house immune cells to transport lymph to filter blood to fight infection

A74-year-old woman, who has been followed for the past 25 years for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease comes to the ed complaining of 48 hours of temperature to 38.6 c and worsening shortness of breath. she has a chronic productive cough, which has become more copious. on physical examination, she has rhonchi and increased fremitus in the posterior mid-lung field. a gram's stain reveals many epithelial cells and multiple gram-positive and gram-negative organisms; no neutrophils are seen. which of the following is the most likely organism causing the symptoms? - escherichia coli- haemophilus influenzae- klebsiella pneumoniae- mycobacterium tuberculosis- mycoplasma pneumoniae