If there are no other injuries, the coder has the option of reporting the global fracture code without the E&M service or reporting an E&M service by itself. “There’s no other significant separately ...

A new report, Recommended Actions to Improve External-Cause-of-Injury Coding in State-Based Hospital Discharge and Emergency Department Data Systems, from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Background Women’s Rugby-7’s continues to experience growth in its player involvement and subsequent popularity in the United States. Objective Evaluate the medical cost and severity profile ...

1 Australian Centre for Research into Sports Injury and its Prevention (ACRISP), Monash Injury Research Institute (MIRI), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 School of Public Health, ...

For-profit status was found to influence the probability of upcoding for inpatient cases involving non-life-threatening injuries with implications for Medicaid and other insurers. Logistic regression ...