-each diagnosis and the procedure MUST correlate; -medical necessity must be established through documentation; -no correlation of principal diagnosis and procedures = no reimbursement -always consider co-morbidities & complications (CC) when coding ...
Main outcome measures were pain control during the procedure, the post-operative pain score at 15 and 60 min, and at 24 h after the procedure, and patients' satisfaction rate.All procedures were completed within 35 min, the amount of saline used varied from 400-1200 ml. There were no ...
**Code has a J1 status indicator and its use will result in the assignment of procedure to a comprehensive APC (C-APC) by Medicare. Even though it is possible that separate APC payments may be determined to be appropriate where more than one procedure is performed during the same outpatient...
Brief family consultation, with a single focus on issues identified by family members and adult patients, was a safe and feasible procedure with adults affected by eating disorders. Effective at meeting the needs of participants, the framework investigated in the current study may also be a useful...
This study provides a procedure-detailed scientific approach for the outpatient planning problem at the chemotherapy department. Abstract In this paper, we study a complex outpatient planning problem in the chemotherapy department. The planning concerns sequences of patients’ treatment sessions subject to...
The computational procedure of HS is explicated by the pseudo-code in Algorithm 1. A preliminary initialization phase is needed to set the initial values of three control parameters, i.e., the harmony memory consideration rate (HMCR), the pitch adjustment (PAR) and the bandwidth (BW). Then...