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    mandates providers and contractors to use approved standardized code sets so as to ensure the ebb and flow of our health care system can continue to improve and become more efficient. Let's look at it another way. You have hundreds of thousands of medical facilities all coding their bills. Imagine if they all did things differently and all used different code sets how much harder it would be for insurance companies to pay out in a timely manner. When HIPAA became enacted in 1996, they set standards

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    the previous study, the ICD-9-CM coding classification system was used for case definition of CT and NG cases. A male or female service member of the US Army with a first-time diagnosis (incidence case) of CT infection based on the ICD-9-CM codes 099.41 or 099.5, or with NG infection based on the ICD-9-CM codes 098.0x, 098.1x, 098.4x, or 098.8x) in either the first or second diagnostic position of a record of an outpatient or inpatient encounter of a medical record between January 1, 2006 and December

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    Medical Coding Essay Academic Essay Diagnostic coding and procedural coding lend themselves well to the improvement of healthcare efficiency. Both have accurate recording for diagnoses and the procedures enable the analysis of information for the patient’s care, research, performance improvement, healthcare planning and facility management. The diagnosis codes are divided into chapters, sections, subsections, and subcategories (1). A coder should become familiar with all of the codes before the

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    In the medical billing and coding process there are several steps. In the medical billing process physicians prepare and sign documentation of the patients visit. The next step is to post the medical codes and transactions of the patients visit in the practice management program and to prepare claims. The process used to generate claims must comply with the rules imposed by federal and state laws as well as with payer requirements. Claims that are correct help to reduce the chance of an investigation

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    ICD-10 stands for International Classification of Diseases, Revision 10. ICD-10 is a revision of the ICD-9 system which physicians and other providers currently use to code all diagnoses, symptoms, and procedures recorded in hospitals and physician practices. There are two main types of ICD-10 coding books, the International Classification of Diseases, Revision 10, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) and the International Classification of Diseases, Revision 10, Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS)

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    diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-bein". pharmacotherapy is an important part of the medical field and relies on the science of pharmacology for continual advancement and on pharmacy for suitable department. The world of drug is huge; it has a great history, so it should have classified ; scientists’ efforts in this field and classification of medicine. Drug is existed form ancient ages in different cultures. Types of drugs in increase because there

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    What is a personal value? A personal value is an individual's absolute or relative and ethical value, the assumption of which can be the basis for ethical action. A value system is a set of consistent values and measures. A principle value is a foundation upon which other values and measures of integrity are based. Some values are physiologically determined and are normally considered objective, such as a desire to avoid physical pain or to seek pleasure. Other values are considered subjective

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    Comparative Study of Classification Algorithms used in Sentiment Analysis Amit Gupte, Sourabh Joshi, Pratik Gadgul, Akshay Kadam Department of Computer Engineering, P.E.S Modern College of Engineering Shivajinagar, Pune amit.gupte@live.com Abstract—The field of information extraction and retrieval has grown exponentially in the last decade. Sentiment analysis is a task in which you identify the polarity of given text using text processing and classification. There are various approaches in the

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    Subjective classification: Subjective jail classification is a system that relies on the “gut” feeling of the classification staff when making decisions, especially housing decisions. This approach relies on a review of jail records (if inmate had been incarcerated before), current charge, criminal history (prior incarcerations), social history, substance abuse history, mental health history, and the impressions of the classification staff interviewer to make placements. Subjective jail classification

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    research data from genomics to innovative drugs, advertisement data, newsfeeds and articles in medical journals. As much as there is scope for finding out patterns among these data, it is not easy to implement predictive analytics in healthcare industry because of the limitations like hand-written prescriptions, scanned images and medical records which comprise of unstructured and disintegrated data. Moreover, medical data is involved with legal and privacy issues. The adoption rate of analytics in healthcare

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