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Pamela and Howard Signa

2005-05-18, 11:23 am

How does your lab define "Patient Encounter"? THe Medicare rules are a bit
confusing. IT compares a patient encounter to each episode, such as the
whole test of a Glucose tolerance test. But what about when you draw the
patient six times a day for series of different orders, on an inpatient?

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