Government Agencies and Third-Party Payers Require That Appropriate Codes Be

question 21

Multiple Choice

Government agencies and third-party payers require that appropriate codes be used to represent the reason for the encounter. The aggregate data from these health encounters may be used to populate special databases for

• A) Patient treatment.
• B) Physician decision-making.
• C) Research.
• D) Interoperability analysis.

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