Question

Explain in detail by typing your feedback to the uniform hospital discharged data set and reimbursement and justify what correct coding should be.

Answer 1

Answer :

The uniform hospital discharge data set :

These data is used for the inpatient data acute care, and short term care, and long term care, hospitals.

It is required for medicare and medicaid patients.

It contains the patient data regarding from admission of the patient to discharge all records and reports like patient age, gender, place of residence like which country, and primary diagnosis and secondary diagnosis codes for reimbursement purpose ect.

So by using these uniform hospital discharge data set we can collect the core data of client, and it can be used in medicair and medicaid.

Here they will use the ICD 9 CM coding.