All associated service codes along with their corresponding CPT codes will be populated as soon as a procedure is documented, a medication is given, or an order is completed. The chargeable items and codes can be displayed, printed or sent via HL7 interface to a billing system. This feature ...
No changes were made to eligibility during each study period but 4 exclusion criteria were added for study 2 after study 1 was found to have limitations of losing patients to follow-up and too few patients in the cocaine-only and benzodiazepine-only group for sub-analyses: ...
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Many policy makers believe that when Medicare constrains its payment rates for hospital inpatient care, private insurers end up paying higher rates as a result. I tested this “cost-shifting” theory using a unique new data set that combines MarketScan private claims data with Medicare hospital cos...
(LOS). Weekly exposure to outpatient PT/OT was examined up to 6 months post-fracture. Cox regression examined the adjusted association between the interaction of acute care/rehabilitation average PT/OT cost/day and LOS with 1-year mortality. A separate Cox model added time-varying outpatient PT...
Conversely, with probability 1 − π[i], the observed counts of additional procedures Y[i] for individual i are assumed to follow a Poisson distribution, represented as Poi(), with individual-specific, risk-adjusted mean rate λ[i]. The log-mean rate of procedures is linked to an ...