tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2002 Issue 5

Reader Question: Death of a Patient

Question: One of our patients died before a full EKG was completed. Is the coding different because the patient died? Wisconsin SubscriberAnswer: ED coders should report services that were completed and were documented in the patient record. There should have been no reason to interpret the EKG output on a patient who died during the evaluation. The work involved in hooking the patient up to the EKG and the expense of operating the equipment would be covered in the facility fee and should not be reflected in the physicians fee. If the ED physician was not called on to...

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