Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 25

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-Kilwa

• A)Speakers of this African language living south and east of the Congo River.
• B)The African region surrounded by the Sahara, the Gulf of Guinea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the mountains of Ethiopia.
• C)North African peoples who controlled the caravan trade between the Mediterranean and the Sudan.
• D)A Muslim port city in East Africa founded between the eighth and tenth centuries; today it is the capital of Somalia.
• E)African collectives bound together by ethnic or blood ties rather than by being political territories.
• F)From the word for "war chief," the name of a large and influential African kingdom inhabited by the Soninke people.
• G)The city in which the king of Ghana held his court.
• H)Originally a campsite for desert nomads, it grew into a thriving city under Mansa Musa, king of Mali and Africa's most famous ruler.
• I)A kingdom in northwestern Ethiopia that was a sizable trading state and the center of Christian culture.
• J)The East African coastal culture, named after a Bantu language whose vocabulary and poetic forms exhibit strong Arabic influences.
• K)The most powerful city on the east coast of Africa by the late thirteenth century.
• L)A ruined southern African city discovered by a German explorer in 1871; it is considered the most impressive monument south of the Nile Valley and Ethiopian highlands.

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Definitions:

Codes

A system of symbols or sequences used to represent information.

DRG

Diagnosis-Related Group, a system to classify hospital cases for the purpose of Medicare and health insurance payments.

Coder

A professional responsible for converting medical diagnoses, treatments, procedures, and symptoms into codes using classification systems such as ICD-10-CM, HCPCS Level II, and CPT for billing and documentation purposes.

POA Assignments

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