I don't think anyone here could know that unless they happen to work there.

I suggest you use an old fashioned device called a telephone, and ask them directly.

That way you will be sure to have the correct answer.

Watch Your Arsenal Before You Look for Optometry Coding Updates

For optometry coding professionals, tough times lie ahead if you do not tackle your coding errors. On an average for 2008, almost 43 percent of the quality data codes (QDCs) that practices submitted to CMS were ineligible for the PQRI bonus because physicians reported them improperly. Watch out for NPI, HCPCS code mistakes to keep your reimbursements flowing, and get the PQRI incentives that your practice deserves.

Optometry Coding Mistakes

Missing NPI: CMS notes that 97,131 of the QDC submissions were missing their national provider identifier (NPI). This happened rarely in the eye care measures; less than 1 percent the five measures optometrists could report was missing NPIs. Among the worst offenders in this category were claims for measure 112 (Screening mammography), which lacked an NPI in 3.5 percent of QDCs.

Wrong HCPCS code: A whopping 15.6 percent or 3 million claims of QDC submissions had incorrect HCPCS codes on them. One of the most common errors in this category occurred with measure 130 (Documentation and verification of current medications in the medical record). CMS noted that 74.6 percent of claims for this measure featured an incorrect HCPCS code. Also at a high risk of errors was measure 46 (Medication reconciliation: Reconciliation after discharge from an inpatient facility), with 69 percent of claims featuring an incorrect HCPCS code. Among the eye-care specific measures, 9.4 percent of claims for measure 14 (Dilated macular examination) featured the wrong HCPCS code.

Your optometry coding mistakes cost you your reimbursement as well as the PQRI bonus money. Apart from making changes to your coding habits, keep in mind that auditors also look for discrepancies in patient-age mismatches, as well as patient-gender mismatches. Pay attention to the basics and once in a while, get in touch with experts to clear your doubts regarding critical scenarios.

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You get your CPR certification as part of your education when you go to school to be a Medical Assistant. When you are finished with school and graduate, then you have to take the national CMA (certified medical assistant) or RMA (registered medical assistant) exam. Then you can go to work for a doctor. After that, the area of the country where you live, the specialty of the doctor you work for and your ability is going to account for how much you get paid, anywhere from $6 per hour to $10 as a starting pay.

Alone With a Heart Attack

You're at home alone, and you suddenly feel a severe pain in the chest.  It is now radiating up all the way to your jaw area, and it's going outwards to your left arm.  Almost certainly you're having a serious heart attack.

You've only got about 10 seconds left.  Your heart is stopping, and you'll be losing consciousness unless you do something right now! 

Start coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough. The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. And a cough must be repeated about every 1-2 seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.  Cough even to pain!

It's now immediate decision time!  How can you get the fastest medical help or CPR?

    1.  Call 911 while coughing.
    2.  Scream for help IF someone who knows CPR is near enough to hear you.

You MUST get CPR immediately or you may die. 

The deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and the coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.

There's still another benefit of this deep breath/cough routine.  The squeezing pressure on the heart may even help it regain normal rhythm.  In this way, heart attack victims can often get to a hospital and live a lot longer.

One case was reported where the victim was driving about 5 minutes from a hospital, and managed to stay alive while driving this distance by simply using this deep breath/cough routine. 

Five minutes or even longer is a huge improvement on 10-30 seconds of heart stoppage.  You may be able to save your own life.

Take a CPR course and you might be the person nearby that saves another's life.  Saving another persons life!  Now, that's a real ego trip that makes anyone feel good.    
   
CPR is pretty simple to learn, and almost everyone can learn how to do it effectively and safely.

You can always do emt and surgical tech

I have a friend that started as a surgical tech and now is an anethesiologist tech (makes a lot more money) and didnt have to go to school too much longer

Resume Makeover - Improve Your Resume With A 5-Point Makeover

Does your resume break mirrors and have dogs barking? Alright, so it's ugly. You can live with that. But if it's also failing to generate job interviews, something has to give. Let's take a fresh look at that old resume, and see if it can't be tweaked into better shape. Here's help in the form of a 5-point resume makeover.

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Got a resume that's a beast? Does it need a leash when you take it out of the house? Maybe it's time to consider a resume makeover. After all, creating a good first impression is pretty much what a resume is all about. If yours isn't doing that, it's not doing its job.

I've compiled five key things you can do to quickly improve your resume, creating a better look and a better first impression of this most important document - and thereby increasing the odds of an interview invitation.

Resume Makeover - 5-Points To A Better Looking Resume

1 - Lose the self-centered objective. If the first line of your resume objective reads like: "To work for a company offering advancement opportunities and salary commensurate with..." you are dead to every hiring manager in the free world. Replace that self-centered objective with something that hints at your worth to the company. Something like: "Position as Territory Manager to advance a proven track record for identifying new business opportunities and delivering bottom line results."

2 - Drop-kick the mundane job descriptions. If you're a Registered Nurse, we don't need to hear that you dress patients' wounds, hook up IVs and maintain charts. The basic stuff is a given. We do need you to tell us the degree of your responsibility ("Charge Nurse on a Medical-Surgical Unit with supervisory responsibility for a staff of 5"). And we do need to know any achievements of note ("Served as Preceptor for new employees." "Selected to teach IV Therapy Program to nursing students and EMT-A's" "Member of Code Blue Team.").

3 - Organize info - especially accomplishments - into bulleted lists. Big blocks of text are difficult to read. And when a hiring official has to plow through 300 resumes, you do not want yours to be difficult to read. Lead off a section with a sentence or two, then organize the balance of information in a bulleted list. That creates white space, and makes comprehension of that data far more likely and pleasant.

4 - Pick out and highlight those qualifications, skills and accomplishments that speak to the position you're seeking. If you're been in retail sales all your life but are seeking a job in management, you'll want to point out not only that you increased counter sales 150% of quota but that you "Set up and organized stock room and new store-wide filing system, and were "Selected to assist in new store opening, with accountability for stocking and merchandising."

5 - Cut the clutter. If you've been to college, drop any mention of high school and elementary school. Scrap the dates on college extracurricular activities. Remove mention of any hobbies, sports and interests. Relegate professional references to a separate sheet. Indeed, if you're pressed for space, you don't even need the sentence "References Available Upon Request" at the bottom of the resume. It does make a nice closing statement and signals to the reader that he or she has reached the end of the resume. But if your resume needs to be de-cluttered, it's expendable.

And that glamour photo in the upper right had corner? OK, if you've got a photo on your resume, here's what you do. First, send a copy to your mother. She'll appreciate it. Now feed the rest of those photo resumes through the shredder.

I know it's tough. But better you than the hiring official.

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Providing resume help on a number of sites, former recruiter David Alan Carter reviews the Web's most popular resume writing services at the website http://TopResumeServices.com, comparing quality of workmanship, spelling out pricing, and giving each a star ranking.