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 ...

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 ...

Objectives: To compare versions 8 and 10 of the Orchard Sports Injury Classification System (OSICS) to determine whether the revised version of OSICS has improved its use in a sports medicine setting, ...