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Thermography Report Generation
Published in James Stewart Campbell, M. Nathaniel Mead, Human Medical Thermography, 2023
James Stewart Campbell, M. Nathaniel Mead
The results sent to the patient should include the following: A full explanation of any problem areas and recommended follow-up or referrals. This text section of the report may be printed on a monochrome printer as a summary report.All full-color digital images should be provided for review and archiving.A printed receipt should be included with the proper medical diagnosis (ICD code) and the CPT procedure codes for insurance reimbursement.A written order for the thermogram from the referring medical practitioner may facilitate insurance reimbursement. As third-party payers have different policies about thermography, patients should contact their carrier for instructions.
Healthcare Data Organization
Published in Arvind Kumar Bansal, Javed Iqbal Khan, S. Kaisar Alam, Introduction to Computational Health Informatics, 2019
Arvind Kumar Bansal, Javed Iqbal Khan, S. Kaisar Alam
The claims and billing office is concerned about claiming the cost of the treatment from the insurance companies or the guarantor(s) of the treatment. A treatment is mapped to multiple allowed procedure-sequences performed by medical practitioners. A procedure-sequence is made of multiple procedure codes. Each procedure has the corresponding ICD-code allowed by an insurance company. Each procedure-code's price is set up by the insurance company based upon the patient's (or the guarantor's) negotiation with the insurance company and the insurance plan. Medical providers provide the procedures for the disease-code given in ICD-10.
The Role of the SLP and Assistive Technology in Life Care Planning
Published in Roger O. Weed, Debra E. Berens, Life Care Planning and Case Management Handbook, 2018
Medical coding is useful to life care planners and SLPs (Table 9.9) for documentation and billing purposes. Current Procedural Terminology, 4th Edition (CPT), is a systematic listing and coding of procedures and services performed by physicians, based upon the procedure being consistent with contemporary medical practice and being performed by many physicians in clinical practice in multiple locations. Each procedure is identified with a 5-digit CPT code. International Classification of Diseases-10-Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) is an indexing of medical information by disease and operations. V codes are codes within the ICD-10-CM classification system that may be used in any health care setting. V codes may be used as either a first listed (principal diagnosis code in the inpatient setting) or secondary code, depending on the circumstances of the encounter. V codes indicate a reason for an encounter and are not procedure codes. A corresponding procedure code must accompany a V code to describe the procedure performed. Readers should refer to the American Medical Association's bookstore website (www.amabook-store.com) for current manuals or software with up-to-date listings of all CPT, ICD-10 codes, and V codes. Table 9.8 lists the newest ICD-10-CM SLP codes in 2016. Table 9.9 lists all the speech-language pathology CPT codes as of time of publication. Table 9.10 offer example life care plan entries with costs. The Model Superbill for SLPs (Appendix 9.12) (ASHA, 2016) at the end of this chapter is another point of reference for SLP medical coding.
A descriptive analysis of wheelchair repair registry data
Published in Assistive Technology, 2023
Alexandria M. James, Gede Pramana, Richard M. Schein, Anand Mhatre, Jonathan Pearlman, Matthew Macpherson, Mark R. Schmeler
The cleaning and extraction process had three sub-processes. The first process filtered out service ticket records with missing serial numbers. This was necessary to avoid potential duplication of cases as customers can get their devices repaired over time, several service tickets could be generated. A serial number can then be used to determine the number of service tickets and the number of repairs a device has over its lifetime. The second process attempted to determine devices’ age by purchase date and filter out the devices without one. A program written in C# language was developed to either decode purchase date from serial number or initiate web service calls to manufacturer’s website (if available). The third process categorized devices into HCPCS code categories based on device model. The HCPCS is a set of healthcare procedure codes primarily used for billing and identifying items and services. The fourth process then filtered out service tickets associated with devices older than 10 years. Devices older than 10 years are very likely to have incomplete repair records showing inaccurately low number of repairs. Devices that could not be categorized due to missing model information were excluded.
Risk of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and the effect of orthopaedic implants on the risk: a nationwide observational cohort study
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, 2023
SS Dieperink, B Glintborg, LB Oestergaard, M Nørgaard, T Benfield, F Mehnert, A Petersen, C Torp-Pedersen, ML Hetland
Orthopaedic implants were identified in the DNPR as a hospital contact with a relevant surgical procedure code either before or during follow-up, and included prosthetic joints, osteosyntheses, and internal fixations (see Supplementary Tables S2–S4 for more information on covariates). Other covariates included sex, age (1 year time spans), calendar year (3 year time spans), socioeconomic status (highest attained educational level), and the following comorbidities: diabetes mellitus, chronic heart failure, chronic liver disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, cancer (except for non-melanoma skin cancer), solid organ transplantation, vascular devices/pacemakers, and chronic dialysis treatment. All comorbidities were identified as far back as registrations allowed, except for cancer, for which the look-back period was 5 years before inclusion. A recent surgical procedure (30 day look-back period) was defined as a hospital contact with a registered surgical procedure code.
Use of classifiers to optimise the identification and characterisation of metastatic breast cancer in a nationwide administrative registry
Published in Acta Oncologica, 2021
Antonis Valachis, Peter Carlqvist, Máté Szilcz, Jonatan Freilich, Simona Vertuani, Barbro Holm, Henrik Lindman
Features used to train the two classifiers were selected from data in the Swedish national administrative health registries by a clinical expert in breast cancer (HL). Further empirical methods were applied to identify features of MBC. These included the calculation of registration frequency, the unique number of patients with specific ICD-10 codes, and the frequency of specific procedure codes among patients in the Training Set. The absolute and relative difference in frequency of the codes and registrations were compared between breast cancer patients with MBC and without MBC in the Training Set. Codes with a high relative difference in frequency (two or more occurrences) were collected and included in the training of the classifiers if considered to be clinically relevant for MBC. Features such as diagnosis codes, frequency of inpatient stays and outpatient visits, procedure codes and drugs dispensed were used alone or in combination for the training of the classifiers. The full list of features is presented in the Supplemental material.