WHATISTHEPLACEOFSERVICE?PhysicianofficeHospitalNursingfacilityOutpatientclinicEmergencydepartmentObservationareaofhospital WHATTYPEOFSERVICEWHATTYPEOFSERVICE?Examplesare:InitialcareforafirstvisitSubsequentcareforfollow-upvisitsProlongedcareStandbyservices WHATISTHEPATIENT’SSTATUS?Isthepatient:IllorinjuredCriticallyillorinjured...
Methods used to predict surgical case time often rely upon the current procedural terminology (CPT) code as a nominal variable to train machine-learned models, however this limits the ability of the model to incorporate new procedures and adds complexity as the number of unique procedures increases...
3. Medicare requires that modifier –25 always be appended to the emergency department (ED)E/M code (99281-99285) when provided on the same date as a diagnostic medical/surgical and/or therapeutic medical/surgical procedure(s). Example #1:A patient is seen in the ED with complaint of a r...