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In 2011, governance of NETS was transferred to the Royal Children's Hospital where it was amalgamated with the perinatal and paediatric emergency retrieval programs to form PIPER. NETS (NSW) evolved in the mid 1970s at two hospitals in Sydney and other hospitals progressively developed the capacity for newborn transport in subsequent years.
The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS, often pronounced by its acronym as "hick picks") is a set of health care procedure codes based on the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT). [1]
The CPT code revisions in 2013 were part of a periodic five-year review of codes. Some psychotherapy codes changed numbers, for example 90806 changed to 90834 for individual psychotherapy of a similar duration. Add-on codes were created for the complexity of communication about procedures.
This is a shortened version of the fifteenth chapter of the ICD-9: Certain Conditions originating in the Perinatal Period. It covers ICD codes 760 to 779 . The full chapter can be found on pages 439 to 453 of Volume 1, which contains all (sub)categories of the ICD-9.
Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (including Current Procedural Terminology) (for outpatient use; used in United States) ICD-10 Procedure Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) (for inpatient use; used in United States) ICD-9-CM Volume 3 (subset of ICD-9-CM) (formerly used in United States prior to the introduction of the ICD-10-PCS)
Certain Conditions originating in the Perinatal Period XVI 780–799: Symptoms, Signs and Ill-defined Conditions XVII 800–999: Injury and Poisoning E800–E999: Supplementary Classification of External Causes of Injury and Poisoning: V01–V82: Supplementary Classification of Factors influencing Health Status and Contact with Health Services ...
ICD has a hierarchical structure, and coding in this context, is the term applied when representations are assigned to the words they represent. [30] Coding diagnoses and procedures is the assignment of codes from a code set that follows the rules of the underlying classification or other coding guidelines.
Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.