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The 1997 Legislature, in Senate Substitute Bill 5445, instructed the Department of Health to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of collecting and reporting data about ambulatory arid outpatient health care encounters in Washington. The vast majority of health care delivery occurs in ambulatory...
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The Texas Legislature requires the Texas Health Care Information Collection program to collect data on radiological services from hospitals and from radiology and imaging centers. I would like to responses to the following questions: How many and which states are collecting data from radiology or imaging...
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From: Brian J. Balicki [mailto:bbalicki@shs.net] There are at least two sources of information that could be used to define outpatient surgeries, particularly if the subject data is to be used for any comparison to national data sources – such as the new national survey on ambulatory surgery. From a...
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The following website contains the current definition for Ambulatory Surgery in NYS. http://www.health.state.ny.us/statistics/sparcs/amb_surg/definition.htm John R. Piddock Director, Publications and Reports Processing Unit Bureau of Biometrics and Health Statistics, NYS Dept. of Health
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Here in Illinois our state is currently finalizing new data reporting requirements. Our anticipated new Outpatient Surgical procedure ranges are below. They are currently considered "proposed" and are therefore still subject to change pending final rules from the State of Illinois. Per the...
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It's funny you should ask, because I've been collecting other states' definitions lately. There is no standard. The common denominator is to collect all ICD-9 procs 00 to 86.99, but then there are additions and subtractions (using ICD-9, CPT , HCPCS, and revenue codes). I'm hoping to...
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What we use as a definition of outpatient hospital services is where service place is designated as "22" which is defined as, "A portion of a hospital which provides diagnostic, therapeutic (both surgical and non-surgical) and rehabilitation services to sick or injured persons who do not...
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Outpatient Surgeries are usually those provided to patients that tend to be invasive in nature such as biopsies, repairs, laparoscopy & endoscopy. Outpatient surgeries are items found in the CPT manual that are between the 10,000 and 69,999 range. For more specific information, you may want to review...
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This is from Dian Kahn, our Director of Analysis and Data Management: "The collection of outpatient data since the late 1980's in Vermont has been an iterative process. Until 2001, we let the hospitals define it and only specified that it occur in an operating room. In 2001, we started to specify...
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Missouri's definition, such as it is, is part of our definition for outpatient encounters--'Outpatient encounters means patients seen in the emergency room, patients receiving invasive procedures on an outpatient basis-- CPT codes 10000-69999 and ICD-9-CM codes 01.0-86.99, inclusive--and patients...