medical vs. mental health diagnosis
I am having some interesting discussions with our coding and compliance staff around identification of principle diagnosis. A patient was admitted to our inpatient unit following a drug overdose. The...
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Sounds like your patient is responsible. Since suicide is illegal (which you can surmise drug overdose is an attempt at), then you shouldn't expect the insurance to pay for it, since they don't pay...
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Are you speaking of the facility's bill, or the physicians' bills? The UB allows you to make this distinction by having an "admitting" diagnosis, that in this case would be the drug overdose, if I'm...
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You know, I had another thought. A drug OD does not require 3 days in the hospital. It only requires a few hours or so in the ER, to counteract the drugs, whether by charcoal or other means. So I...
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I know this is an old post and the problem is probably taken care of by now, but I am new to the forum and could not help adding my opinion. Principal diagnosis is the condition established AFTER...
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