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Encounters vs. Days for Inpatient Visit Coding
Published on Wed Mar 12, 2014
Question: A Medicare inpatient was aggressive and needed restraints several times during his stay. In addition, he was put in seclusion after assaulting the staff several times during the night. This required the doctor to get to the hospital within an hour to authorize the seclusion, sedate the patient, calm staff, etc. The doctor saw the patient during regular rounds on [...]