Patient encounters definition
Patient encounters means the number of inpatient admissions, inpatient surgeries, inpatient visits as admitting or attending physician, outpatient surgeries, physician clinic visits, anesthetic cases, radiology interpretations, pathology interpretations, emergency department patients, observation admissions, consultations, which are defined as face-to-face contacts, telemedicine, or supervision of licensed master-level psychologists, licensed master-level social workers, licensed clinical psychologists, licensed clinical marriage and family therapists, and licensed clinical professional counselors.
Patient encounters means inpatient admissions, surgical procedures, consultations, short procedure unit procedures, outpatient procedures or referrals for ancillary services;
Examples of Patient encounters in a sentence
Document all Inmate Patient encounters in the medical record with a copy of the encounter available to Medical Contractor via Electronic Health Record.
Patient encounters were defined as a hospital admission where both surgery (of the spine, hip, or knee) and a radiology diagnostic study for VTE were performed.