Rita works as a medical coder for an ambulatory surgery center. under the terms of hipaa, is rita considered a covered entity? a. no. only health plans and clearinghouses are covered entities. b. yes. she reviews the medical record and assigns diagnosis and procedure codes. c. only if she is promoted to medical record compliance or auditing. d. maybe, depending on her employment status.

You isolate an infectious substance capable of causing disease in plants, but you do not know whether the infectious agent is a bacterium, virus, viroid, or prion. you have four methods at your disposal to analyze the substance and determine the nature of the infectious agent.i. treat the substance with enzymes that destroy all nucleic acids and then determine whether the substance is still infectious.ii. microscope.iii. culture the substance on nutritive medium, away from any plant cells.iv. treat the sample with proteases that digest all proteins and then determining whether the substance is still infectious.if you already know that the infectious agent was either bacterial or viral, which method(s) listed above would allow you to distinguish between these two possibilities? a) ib) iic) ii or iiid) iv