diabetes mellitus‚ leucopenia‚ orthostatic hypotension‚ HIV‚ and end stage renal disease. She had all toes amputated on he left foot and an index finger on her left arm. Mrs. P. V. is also a dialysis patient‚ who visits Inpatient Dialysis Unit at the SGMC. She was sent to the ED from Inpatient Dialysis Unit for altered mental status with somnolence‚ low blood pressure‚ and hypothermia. According to daughter‚ who was at the bedside‚ the patient started being somnolent‚ confused‚ and having a poor appetite
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LOCATION: Outpatient‚ Hospital PATIENT: Stan Hope SURGEON: Mohamad Almaz‚ MD PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Left shoulder pain and numbness‚ past shoulder injury POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Normal shoulder PROCEDURE PERFORMED: Diagnostic arthroscopy‚ left shoulder CLINICAL HISTORY: This is a 57-year-old with a l0-year-old rotator cuff tear injury to his left shoulder. The patient does heavy lifting for a living. For the past 6 months the patient has been experiencing pain in this shoulder with
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The CCA‚ the CCS and the CCS-P are the only coding credentials worldwide currently accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). The CCA designation has been a nationally accepted standard of achievement in the health information management (HIM) field since 2002. CCA credential differentiates coders by exhibiting commitment and proving coding capabilities across all settings‚ this includes both hospitals and physician practices. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates
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When I went to Outpatient there were many people working. The four staff members are a staff nurse‚ a charge nurse‚ a nurse practitioner‚ and a unit secretary. A staff nurse is in outpatient is responsible of admitting patients‚ making preparations which includes both patients and the equipments that are necessary‚ they assist physicians with many bedside procedures‚ and are responsible of recovering patients. A nurse staff is also responsible of checking charts and orders‚ monitoring patients and
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PORTFOLIO INPATIENT EMR IMPLEMENTATION FOR BWMC AND MGH PROJECT CHARTER Central Region Business‚ Financial & Clinical Systems PORTFOLIO INPATIENT EMR PROJECT BALTIMORE WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER AND MARYLAND GENERAL HOSPITAL IMPLEMENTATION Project Charter Final version PORTFOLIO INPATIENT EMR IMPLEMENTATION FOR BWMC AND MGH PROJECT CHARTER DOCUMENT INFORMATION AND APPROVALS Version History Version # 1.0 2.0 3.0 to 8.0 9.0 10.0 to 11.0 Date 01/30/2010 02/22/2010 03/28/2010
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Drexel University ECON 240 1 Dr. Edward A Tomczyk 12 November 2006 Economic Analysis of Outpatient Care Centers vs. Hospitals A recent phenomenon in the health services is the burgeoning of outpatient healthcare centers. Particularly vigorous growth has been observed in centers that perform diagnostic tests and simple surgeries and procedures like colonoscopies. At the current state‚ outpatient care centers outnumber hospitals in Pennsylvania. Furthermore‚ these centers now perform one of
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am taking is about medical billing and coding. you can also work from the comfort of your home. Since I have a disability that prevents me from working my previous career that I was in ‚after not working for quite a few years I knew I needed to find a career that I could do and work from my home. This is why I chose medical billing and coding after talking to some of my cousin who was in this field.there are several category within medical billig and coding that I will describe * The definition
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an essay on the following topic: "Discuss cultural differences as they exist in American and Vietnamese culture and suggest some ways to overcome them." CONTENT The difference of culture impacts so much to the way to living‚ the way of thinking and the way of doing business. America and Vietnam have a big difference in culture‚ religion and business. However‚ we live in a world where it is called flat world‚ where there is no restriction between countries. It requires us to integrate in order to
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is Medical Coding. After receiving my Medical Assistant diploma‚ I started working in a Pediatric clinic in the back office doing patient care and front office scheduling appointments and receiving and posting payments‚ I also researched and assigned medical codes for outpatient billing using International Classification of Disease- ninth Revision‚ Clinical Modification (ICD-9) and the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding books. Medical Coding. I then went to work coding inpatient records. It
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main difference between coding outpatient and inpatient is the procedure codes. Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are used for outpatient coding and the International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) is used for inpatient coding. CPT codes are published by the American Medical Association and The World Health Organization (WHO) is responsible for ICD codes. The ICD-9 diagnoses codes are used for both outpatient and inpatient coding. Inpatient medical
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