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Hospital-Level Model Outcomes. Back to top Article Information. Access your subscriptions. Access through your institution. Add or change institution. Free access to newly published articles. When using the 3M encoder, the software will mark all POA exempt codes for you.
If coding by hand, this list will need to be referenced. Inpatient care means that you are admitted to a hospital on the orders of a doctor. You become classified as an inpatient as soon as you are admitted. Outpatient care covers many categories, including the ER, same day surgery, observation, and radiology, and more.
Even with a hospital stay, your care might be considered an outpatient service. If your doctor orders observation of your condition or tests to help diagnose your condition while you are in the hospital, you can still officially be an outpatient.
For some outpatient surgeries, you may receive the surgery at a hospital but not be admitted. It is not until a doctor orders admission that you are considered inpatient and a medical coder needs to determine POA indicators. Present on admission indicators are used as a form of recording for inpatient billing. POA indicators are not used or required on outpatient claims. However, conditions that develop during an outpatient encounter that lead toward an inpatient admission are considered POA.
This is a great question. Some conditions are very obvious and can be easily identified, while others are not so simple.
The easiest to determine are external conditions like broken bones or major cuts and injuries. If the patient came in with the condition, the POA is a yes. Tough choices: the right diuretic for heart failure and the best July Raises and subsidies are back on the table May Is the ED admitting too many patients?
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