tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 1999 Issue 7

Coding for AMA and LWBS Patients: Charge for the Services Provided When Patients Leave the ED Against Medical Advice

Unlike physician offices and hospitals, emergency departments see patients with a variety of illnesses and injuries on an unscheduled and episodic basis. Consequently, many EDs have to deal with treatment scenarios unfamiliar to other healthcare providers. For example, in a busy ED, patients may often get frustrated with long waits to see the physician and leave without being seen (LWBS). Or, discouraged by the wait or unwilling to be admitted to the hospital after seeing the ED clinical staff, some patients leave the department against medical advice (AMA) before their treatment is complete. ED managers and coders are often...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert.


You have ED coding questions, and we deliver money-in-the-bank answers to help you defeat your claim issues and secure optimal reimbursement.

Stay in the know and avoid federal reproach with your subscription to TCI’s ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert.

  • Current newsletters added each month
  • Fully searchable archives - over 2100 articles
  • ALL years/issues back to 1998 organized by year and issue
  • Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
  • Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products:
  • tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert +Archives

demo
request yours today
 subscribe
start today
 newsletter
free subscription

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.