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Use Medicare Summary Notices as an Opportunity to Educate Patients

Use the MSN to inform patients of their benefits and clarify billing questions. While calling Medicare to explain a patient’s benefits is sometimes better, this is not always the first phone call the patient makes. More likely, the patient calls the provider’s office with questions about their medical bills. Here’s how your practice can use […]

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Discharge Summary Documentation/Workflow

Hey, I am looking to see if other organizations have any information they can share on Discharge Summaries: the documentation requirements, verbiage used, and workflows your facility is currently using.

1. Is the date/time stamp required on a patient’s discharge summary? or can the provider verbiage simply state, "Patient being discharge today." sufficient?
2. Do your physicians do a discharge summary before or after the patient has actually been discharged from the facility?
3. If it is prior to discharge, what is your current workflow?

Our providers have expressed numerous concerns over the years about discharge summaries. It is my understanding that currently, when a physician discharges the patient they create an order and write a summary-now this patient may not be discharged until later in the day. When the patient is finally discharged, the provider now receives an in basket for discharge verification. This can cause deficiencies for the providers and has been raising concerns.

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Discharge Summary Date

If the provider completes a discharge summary on 05/01/2019 but is not actually discharged until 05/02/2019. Does the provider’s discharge summary need to be updated to include that information stating the actual discharge date of 05/02/2019? I understand we would bill our services on 05/01/2019 because that is the actual date the provider did the face to face service but not sure if we have to have them update their note to include the actual discharge date.

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Coding inpatient discharge summary diagnosis

I have come across many inpatient discharge diagnosis that do not match. For example the discharge diagnosis will Schizophrenia but below that it will have the axis 1 and it will say Paranoid Schizophrenia. I was always taught to go with the "discharge diagnosis" when billing the discharge summary, however the axis 1 was more specific. Are there any rules regarding which one to use for billing the discharge summary?

thanks

Darla

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Discharge Summary

Hello, I am a new coder and have some issues with Discharge summaries for Inpatient and Observation. If we have a doctor who documented a progress note and a discharge for the same day, we bill the Discharge, correct?
I thought this, but when I asked a provider to sign the documentation for the DC, he told me that he already signed the progress note and so the DC is not billable.
Does this mean we only bill the one the provider signed instead?

Thanks,

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Medical Packaging Material Summary – Medical Medical Packaging – Pharmaceutical Industries

Medical Packaging Materials Include: medical supplies for packaging or for packaging Medical Devices Packaging materials: can be taken, and contact with medical products or as functional (such as moisture, barrier, etc.) packaging packaging materials and so on. Since the development of polymer materials, plastic packaging materials packing materials in medical hold more key position.

Can take Pharmaceutical Packaging Material; such packaging materials are mainly capsules, microcapsules and Accessories . Commonly used with food starch, gelatin, ethyl cellulose, polyvinyl alcohol and so on.

Traditional packaging materials: such as wax, glass, ceramics, paper (board), and metal.

Plastic Packaging Materials: packaging materials in medical hold more key positions, as plastic as a packaging material with high strength and good barrier properties, light and portable, transparent, and many fine features, and thus become a modern medical packaging The main material, whether pharmaceuticals or medical devices packaging. In the pharmaceuticals packaging, in addition to a variety of plastic bags (including blood transfusion bags, etc.) Plastic bottles And so on, it should focus on to point out that pills help plastic blister packaging is * only developed a new packaging, it solves the access to several pieces after a few sheets and access to drugs often affect other film preservation is not the problem . Then a useful synthetic paper made of plastic, can be achieved by blocking bacteria, to provide for the realization of aseptic conditions.

L, medical plastic bottles.

Meet the medical and health requirements by the plastic; is the practical application of the plastic varieties are: polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), polyester (PET) and so on.

Divided into high-density polyethylene (HDPE, density> 0.94g/cm3), low density (LDPE, density layer 0.92-0.93g/cm) and linear low density (LLDPE, density 0.92 -o.93g/cm3), etc. In addition to polyethylene bottle, but also used for making caps. There are many grades of polypropylene, is the product of different copolymerization. PS no melting point, pure and crisp, so there are a variety of modified varieties, such as high impact strength polystyrene (HIPS).

PET plastic bottles in recent years to enter medical material, characterized by transparency, to see whether drugs bad, excellent barrier properties, especially moisture, which greatly benefit the preservation of drugs; easy to color or add some additives to meet specific requirements (such as UV resistance). To improve the oxygen barrier property. On copolymerization; such as adding acid.

2, thin film, composite film.

Pouch is usually made for doctors Pharmaceutical Packaging Application. Plasma composite film packaging bag is the most typical examples of pharmaceuticals. By pharmaceutical industry standards YY0236-1996 (pharmaceutical packaging composite film (General)) division, pharmaceutical packaging applications, films, composite films were:

Breathable film category in the bone paste application in medicine package has an important position. Manufacturing methods known to one of breathable film is used in membrane materials to add salt, wash away the salt after film technology.

3, sheet material and tablets of the blister packs.

Is the pharmaceutical packaging new technologies, new stage, the main materials used are aluminum foil, adhesives and plastic sheets; the plastic sheet and the main use of polyvinyl chloride (P VC ) Sheet and polyester (PET) sheet two.

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sheet requested non-toxic formula; PVC resin, ethylene oxide (VC) content of

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