Patient Encounter definition

Patient Encounter means, for the purpose of determining whether a Medical Staff Member “regularly treats” patients at the Medical Center, (a) an inpatient or outpatient admission of a patient during which the Medical Staff Member has direct, in-person contact with the patient; or

Patient Encounter means an interaction in a health care facility, health care clinic, or office in which a patient can see a health care provider delivering services directly to a patient.

Patient Encounter means any encounter where medical treatment and/or evaluation and management services are provided. For purposes of this rule, the entire course of an inpatient stay in a healthcare facility or treatment in an emergency department is considered a single patient encounter.

Examples of Patient Encounter in a sentence

• All Mississippi Patient Encounter Forms are due in the BEMS office by the seventh day after the close of the preceding month.

• All licensed ambulance services operating in the State of Mississippi must electronically submit the State of Mississippi Patient Encounter Form and/or information contained on the form for each ambulance run made and/or for each patient transported.

• Mississippi Patient Encounter Forms are due in the BEMS office by the seventh day after the close of the preceding month.

• A completed copy of a Mississippi Patient Encounter Form or Patient Care Report containing the data elements of the Mississippi Patient Encounter Form shall be left with hospital staff for all patients delivered to licensed Hospitals.

• All licensed ambulance services operating in the State of Mississippi must submit electronically, the State of Mississippi Patient Encounter Form and/or information contained on the form via network, or direct computer link, for each ambulance run made and/or for each patient transported.

More Definitions of Patient Encounter

Patient Encounter means any action on the part of the Practitioner to provide medical or other patient care services to the patient in the Hospital or its facilities, including, without limitation, admission, treatment, performance or interpretation of diagnostic tests, or consultation, and may include the supervision of house staff and medical students; provided however, that Patient Encounter shall not include the ordering of tests on an out-patient basis.

Patient Encounter means a professional contact between a Practitioner and a patient whether an admission, consultation, or diagnostic, operative, or invasive procedure at the Hospital.

Patient Encounter means a set or sets of DICOM images from a single modality relating to a single patient within a 24 hour period that are obtained by a Customer and electronically communicated for interpretation within a 24 hour period to a Licensee server running the Synapse Software, and includes such set or sets of images that are transferred from a health care institution to another Customer utilizing Licensee’s infrastructure.

Patient Encounter means: (a) an inpatient or outpatient admission of a patient during which the subject Medical Staff Member has direct, in-person contact with the patient; (b) the performance of a procedure at the Hospital or a Hospital-licensed facility; or (c) the provision of diagnostic or therapeutic services for a patient at the Hospital or a Hospital-licensed facility.

Patient Encounter means, for the purpose of determining whether a Medical Staff Member “regularly treats” patients at the Medical Center, (a) an inpatient or outpatient admission of a patient during which the Medical Staff Member has direct, in-person contact with the patient; (b) the performance of a procedure or diagnostic or therapeutic intervention for a Medical Center patient; or (c) performance of a history and physical (including diagnostic impression with treatment plan and goals, and pre-operative assessment and recommendations) for inpatient and outpatient admissions.

Patient Encounter means: (a) an inpatient or outpatient admission of a patient during which the Medical Staff Member has direct, in-person contact with the patient; (b) the performance of a procedure

Patient Encounter means (a) in the inpatient setting, an inpatient admission or consultation (resulting in not less than a consult report), or surgery/invasive procedure; or (b) in the outpatient setting (including the Emergency Department) treatment or consultation (resulting in not less than a consult report); provided, however, that Patient Encounters shall not include the provision of back up coverage by one Practitioner for another.