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Test your knowledge answers:

1) The flushing of catheters/tubes utilized for infusion therapy are considered for M1030. Flushing a biliary tube used for bile drainage would not be considered a catheter/tube used for infusion, therefore flushing the biliary tube would not be reported on M1030.

2) If a patient develops two pressure ulcers that are separated by intact skin but have a tunnel that connects the two, they will remain two pressure ulcers.

3) CMS guidance regarding reverse staging is not allowed. Pressure ulcers are NOT to be reverse staged.

4) A gastrostomy that is being allowed to close on its own would be excluded from consideration as a surgical wound because it is an ostomy.

5) Sleep apnea treated by CPAP is not the same as dyspnea at rest (Response 4 for M1400). M1400 asks about dyspnea (shortness of breath), not sleep apnea (absence of breath during sleep.)

6) Yes, the patient would be considered incontinent if incontinence occurs under any situation(s).