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| Acute illness or injury requiring entry into a hospital |
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| List of modifiers with explanation for use |
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| Legally responsible for care and treatment of patient |
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| New procedure or service code added since last edition. |
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| Codes approved by the FDA widely used services and procedures |
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| Similar services to same patient by more than one physician on same day. |
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| Service provided by a physician whose opinion or advice is requested. |
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| Services to a patient requiring constant physician care. |
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| Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) |
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| Coding system to convert widely accepted procedures into five digit codes. |
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| Services provided by physician in emergency department |
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| Has been seen by physician or physician in same group or specialty within 3 yrs |
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| Food & Drug Administration (FDA) |
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| Responsible for safety of food and drugs in America |
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| Patient admitted to acute healthcare facility |
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| History, examination and medical decision making |
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| Added to codes to give more specific information. |
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| Has not been seen by physician(s) in 3yrs in same group and specialty |
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| Face to face encounter in a physician's private office. |
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| Receives healthcare in an ambulatory healthcare facility |
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| Transferring total care of patient to another physician |
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| Right/left triangle symbol |
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| Beginning and end of text that is revised. |
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| Cross reference in CPT directing coder to another term(s) to find code |
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| Code has been modified or changed since last edition. |
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| Considered unusual, experimental, does not have specific code number. |
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| Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act |
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| Insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus |
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| Mitral stenosis, Multiple Sclerosis, musculoskeletal |
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| Pupils equal reactive responsive to light and accommodation |
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| Peripheral Nervous System |
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| Temperature, pulse, respiration |
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| formal collection of items that record important events that have occurred |
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| personal information about another individual that is hurtful and inappropriate |
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| paper that has the company logo, mailing address, and telephone numbers imprinted on quality paper |
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| what is communicated through body language |
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| an informal language used among a particular group |
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