REASON FOR CONSULT: Acute on chronic renal failure. Patient is an 87 year old Caucasian male who has a history of hypertension, severe peripheral vascular disease, chronic renal insufficiency, and atrial fibrillation. He was admitted yesterday for treatment of an infected toe. The plan was to obtain an angiogram to check patients’ blood flow; however he was discovered on admission labs to have acute on chronic renal failure, patient states he is unaware of kidney problems before. He states he is able to pass his urine without difficulty, no obstructive symptoms, no history of kidney stones, no urinary tract infections, no hematosis, no dysuria, and no diabetes mellitus. Patient states he has a history of hypertension, but it has been very mild. He has had trouble with vascular disease to both legs.…
On 10/10/17, Room 370 who is a 65-year-old male was admitted into the hospital because his suprapubic catheter came out. He was admitted in the emergency department to have his catheter replaced. His brother says he checks on him often, and he has been doing good for the last few months. According to his brother, there has been no change to his medical condition. However, labs were done, which revealed Hypernatremia and an increased in blood urea nitrogen (BUN). Based on these results, Room 370 is dehydrated. His brother said he has not had any diarrhea or excessive sweating. Room 370 cannot communicate anything beyond an occasional yes or no. Room 370 finished a course of Levaquin for what appears to be a urinary tract infection (UTI). The plan is to start him on Zosyn as soon as possible. The order for Zosyn will be effective until the culture is negative.…
MR. ROBERT N MCDONALD has been seen in our office on April 29, 2016 and May 6, 2016. The patient has a seriouse infection to his left leg. The patient requires IV antibiotic to manage the condtion. My concern is, the infection may become systemic and the patient may becom septic. It is my advise for the patient to be evaluated with infectionuse deases MD and to develope further treatment plans to minimize the malevent outcome.…
B) was brought into the emergency room for pain to left leg and left hip. The injury occurred when the patient had a fall due to him losing his balance after tripping over his dog. The hospital is a 60 bed rural hospital located in Mr. B’s hometown. Mr. B was brought in by his son and neighbor. Upon triage Mr. B was complaining of pain 10/10 on the numerical pain scale and his vitals were found to be stable. Mr. B has a history of impaired glucose tolerance, prostate cancer, and chronic pain which he is on oxycodone. The Patient states he had no known allergies or previous falls. Upon the nursing assessment Nurse J. has noticed that the patient has limited range in motion, his left leg has swelling and appears shortened in comparison to the right. Nurse J. has informed the ED physician which he came to his bedside for…
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), is regulated by The Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The objective for CLIA program is to ensure quality non-research laboratory testing. CLIA standard is a federal requirement for any entity providing a non-research clinical laboratory test. The passage of CLIA 1998 and the implementation of the regulation in 1993 constituted a vast change in the regulations of clinical laboratories in the United States. There was mixed reaction initially as any regulations guarantees. The different profession had differences of opinion to these changes. From a patient's point of view, it is welcome regulation as they are assured quality standardized laboratory test results. Patients are assured that a laboratory follows proper procedure in regards to the patient's test results. Standard procedure is necessary to get the accurate and reliable and timeliness results.…
1- How could his physician’s office have prevented this problem? I think that the physician with it avoid this situation if they have Communication this is the most important point for a successful resolution of this kind of problem .…
of 6 to 10 g/dL. The other values are all within the range of normal.…
2. A 76-year-old woman with a body mass index (BMI) of 17 kg/m and a low serum albumin…
Medicare severity diagnosis-related group or MS-DRG is Medicare refinement to the diagnosis-related group (DRG) classification system, which allows for payment to be more closely aligned with resource. The Medicare Severity-DRG (MS-DRG) is the most commonly used DRG system, because it governs the ever growing ranks of Medicare patients (Bushnell, 2013).…
The codes for established patient range from 99211 to 99215. This patient is stated to be an established patient. Since the patient had a routine blood test and only saw the nurse the correct E/M code would be 99211.…
I have recently been assigned a new task. I must run and reconcile a report that compile Medicare accounts that have payment’s rejections from coding perspective. Since this is a new task, I’ve noticed that I am working on the report at the last time and getting behind in my additional duties.…
The Act encourages prompt EHR system adoption for physicians through providing them financial benefits in terms of incentives. Physicians who are meaningful EHR system users are eligible for Medicare incentive payments from 2011 to 2015, an amount that can reach 75% more than what they charge with a cap of $18,000 for 2011 and 2012. Having more Medicaid patients and servicing in “health professional shortage areas” will result to additional incentives too.…
You are working in a community outpatient clinic where you perform the intake assessment on R.M., a 38- year-old woman who is attending graduate school and is very sedentary. She reports overwhelming fatigue that is not relieved by rest. She states that she is so exhausted that she has difficulty walking to class and trouble concentrating when studying. Her face looks puffy, and her skin is dry and pale. She also reports generalized body aches and pains with frequent muscle cramps and constipation. You notice that she is dressed inappropriately warm for the weather. Initial vital signs were 142/84, 52, 12, 96.8®F.…
Thanks for posting your comment, Medicare is the main Health insurance that I see being used as a primary, and secondary I have seen Health Partners Medicare (HPM), Cigna Health Springs Medicare (CHSM). There are so many Patients that has a Primary and a secondary insurance, But insurance company doesn't explain to the patients or they don't understand how the insurance work so patient needs more information and it needs to be explain with more details so they won't be so confused. Because they will come to the office asking why they have a bill. I had many patient come to the office in which I will have to explain it to them so they will have a better understanding on the insurance they have. Keep up the good…
Thank you both for your comments. As you have both mentioned the Medicare rule for observation is very complex and confusing. The intention of the rule is to set clinical criteria for observation, and rapidly discharge the patient in twenty-four hours. However, this does not always happen. Some observation patients can stay up to ninety-six hours before being discharged or switched to observation status. One of the problems is individual health care organization interprets the Medicare rule differently. Then if the patient had a managed care Medicare carrier, the rules may be different. This makes observation status for an organization nightmare to manage (Hockenberry, Parlato, & Ross, 2014). What I find even worse, observation increases the…