The component of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that reflects the overhead costs involved in a service is:

A. physician work

B. malpractice expense

C. practice expense

D. conversion factor

Pay-for-performance (P4P) initiatives link reimbursement to health care performance criteria to promote the right care for every patient every time, regardless of a patient's ethnicity, gender, geographic location, and socioeconomic status, patients receive “right care." Which is an example of a P4P initiative?

a. Medicare physician fee schedule

b. hospital inpatient prospective payment system

c. intensity of services and severity of illness

d. hospital value-based purchasing program

Connie has met with her new primary care physician and nurse practitioner. (NP). The NP has explained in detail to her the patient portal for the practice. Since Connie has some unusual conditions, the NP has shown her how to find more information on her conditions. The P called it "consumer informatics". An example of consumer informatics includes

A. Health information literature

B. EHR

C. Telehealth

D. Health record

Code using CPT. The primary care physician called his patient to discuss a confirmatory pathology report from a biopsy taken two weeks ago regarding the patient's new diagnosis of prostate cancer. The physician discussed transferring the patient's care to an oncologist. The call lasted 25 minutes.

a. 99421 x2

b. 99375

c. 99423

d. 99374