When an Encounter Is for a Therapeutic Service, the First-Listed

question 19

True/False

When an encounter is for a therapeutic service, the first-listed code is the diagnosis, condition, or problem shown to be chiefly responsible for the therapeutic service.

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Definitions:

Booker T. Washington

An influential African American educator, author, and orator in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his advocacy of the "Atlanta Compromise."

Vocational Education

A program of study that prepares individuals for specific trades, crafts, and careers at various levels from a trade, a craft, technicians, or a professional position in engineering, accountancy, nursing, medicine, and other healing arts, architecture, pharmacy, law etc.

Tuskegee Institute

A historically black college in Alabama established by Booker T. Washington to provide African Americans with educational and vocational training.