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The CPT code set describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among physicians, coders, patients, accreditation organizations, and payers for administrative, financial, and analytical purposes.
HCPCS was established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing the specific items and services provided in the delivery of health care. Such coding is necessary for Medicare , Medicaid , and other health insurance programs to ensure that insurance claims are processed in an orderly and consistent manner.
A doctor visiting an elderly patient, near San Antonio, Texas, in May 1973. A house call is medical consultation performed by a doctor or other healthcare professionals visiting the home of a patient or client, [1] instead of the patient visiting the doctor's clinic or hospital. In some locations, families used to pay dues to a particular ...
A doctor meeting with her patient in Egypt. Doctors develop a close relationship with their patients in order to build trust and better diagnose and treat disease.. A doctor's visit, also known as a physician office visit or a consultation, or a ward round in an inpatient care context, is a meeting between a patient with a physician to get health advice or treatment plan for a symptom or ...
Health care professionals use them to record a patient's baseline status and may write additional on-service notes, progress notes , preoperative notes, operative notes, postoperative notes, procedure notes, delivery notes, postpartum notes, and discharge notes. These notes constitute a large part of the medical record.
E-consult is a web-enabled system and process, where primary care clinicians and specialists are able to communicate, share clinical information and consult electronically to manage patient care. [2] It reduces the specialty referral and appointment process to just a few days, which increases the speed delivery for patient care services. [3]
Providing patients with information is central to patient-centered health care and this has been shown to have some positive effects on health outcomes. [22] Providing patients with access to their health records including medical histories and test results via an electronic health record is a legal right in some parts of the world. [22]
Ambulatory Patient Group (APG) is a classification system for outpatient services reimbursement developed for the American Medicare service by the Health Care Financing Administration. [1] It classifies patients into nearly 300 pathology groups rather than the 14,000 of the International Classification of Diseases .