| DESCRIPTION | Outpatient surgical and non-OR procedures that are filed as encounters inthe Patient Care Encounters (PCE) package without an active, count clinicidentified for each encounter are not transmitted to the National PatientCare Database (NPCD) as workload. This option may be used as a tool foridentifying these encounters that represent uncounted workload so thatcorrective actions may be taken in the Surgery package to insure theseprocedures are associated with an active, count clinic. After correctionsare made, these encounters may be re-filed with PCE to be transmitted toNPCD. This option provides functionality: - To count and/or list surgical cases and non-OR procedures that have entries in PCE but have no matching entries in the OUTPATIENT ENCOUNTER file (#409.68) or have matching entries that are non-count encounters or encounters requiring action. - To re-file with PCE the cases identified as having no matching entries in the OUTPATIENT ENCOUNTER file (#409.68) or having matching entries that are non-count encounters or encounters requiring action. Both the report and the re-filing process may be run for OR surgicalcases, non-OR procedures or both. The report and the re-filing processmay be run for a specific specialty or for all specialties and may be runfor a selected date range. |