Code injection

Recently there has been a shortage of drugs used for lethal injections, so often times it is the job of the pharmacist to compound the drugs necessary for these injections. In some states, laws have been passed that prohibit disclosing the names of the pharmacists and pharmacies who prepare these lethal injections to the public. Pharmacists adhere to the Code of Ethics and take the Oath of a Pharmacist, which could be problematic when preparing lethal injections. There are many legal and ethical implications for pharmacists that are evident in this situation, therefore it is important to consider both sides of these issues. It would be beneficial not to disclose the name of the pharmacist who prepared the lethal injection because it would…

Structured Query Language (SQL) injection attacks have been around for nearly two decades and have posed a threat to companies and government agencies around the world (SQL Injection Defense, n.d). The former head of payment security for Barclaycard, Neira Jones, states; “some 97 percent of database attacks worldwide are still due to SQL injection somewhere along the attack chain (SQL Injection Defense, n.d). A SQL injection attack can lead to an unauthorized access to database content and web…

Procedure to Procedure edit 50010/0213T indicated Misuse of column two codes with column one code meaning 50010 in column 1 is the code that should be bill and is payable. 0213T located in column 2 of the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Procedure-to-Procedure (PTP) code table. The main reason beyond the implementation of the NCCI is to prevent improper payment in other words to prevent physicians, non-physician practitioners, and Ambulatory Surgery Centers from billing twice for one…

Other codes can be used to identify procedures for open rib fractures. I know change is “just the way it is” in this profession so I’m trying to gear myself up for it. Examples of when you would dig out the HCPCS book :-) When a 68-year-old patient had a complete cystectomy they would need to have a catheter system supplied for them. You would find it in the HCPCS. When a patient goes in for nuclear medicine imaging procedure the contrast would be identified by a HCPCS code. When a patient is…

are taking. It is important that patients bring all of their medications to their doctor’s appointment. Patients need to inform their doctor about their allergies and adverse reactions to medications. When a doctor writes a prescription for a medication make sure that you or the patient can read it. It is vital that the patient ask for information about their medicines in terms you can understand. If you have any questions about your medication label be sure to ask the doctor. Another important…

start thinking about the existing data. My theoretical framework to analyze this data is Grounded Theory, which utilizes inductive sorting, and that allows the researcher to use data itself to make ideas theories (Galman, 2013). In order to reach most meaningful material, I will code each transcript by hand on the Microsoft Word`s Comment feature, which is under the Review tap. I will look at find data chunks in each transcript, which Saldana (2013) defined this process as a First Cycle…

A medical billing and coding career can be a desirable career path for many people interested in the healthcare industry. Medical coders play a key role in the health care billing process, assigning the codes that turn treatments into bills. Medical billing and coding specialists are vital to keeping costs down, reducing medical mistakes and generally ensuring there’s a free flow of information about patients’ medical histories. The health care industry is constantly striving to become more…

Both of these styles are using E-Codes and V-codes for coding. V-Codes are used to classify the factors that are brought on by the health status and that contact with the all the health services. Also you have the E-Codes describes the external causes for injury’s. Also both of these coding styles use a decimal after three characters. In the ICD-10-CM codes there are seven different characters and it uses a combination of letters of the alphabet with the exception of the letter U. On the…

In the healthcare industry, the acronym known as ICD 10 is a very powerful 5 character term, however what exactly is ICD 10? Why is it so important in the overall field of healthcare and what does is mean for the providers and the patients that they serve? ICD 10 stands for International Classification of Disease, Tenth Edition. It is the global coding system that all healthcare systems use, even internationally. ICD was formed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1989. It was made to…

I will examine types of clinical terminology, classification, and a code system. My goal is to compare and contrast their general characteristics, purpose, use, content, and structure. Clinical terminology will be examined in the paragraph below. The clinical terminology examined will be SNOMED CT. SNOMED CT provides codes for clinical documentation and reporting. There is no book for SNOMED CT codes. Software applications are used to implement the codes using identifiers assigned to a…