| DESCRIPTION | This report provides a summary of PCE encounters. For the purposes of thisreport an encounter is any entry in the Visit File. The report can be run bylocation or by provider. Encounters included in the reportare selected by a combination of date range, service categories, and encountertypes.Data for the selected encounters is categorized and summarized in several ways.CPT codes associated with encounters are classified by Evaluation andManagement Code. Those falling into the E&M group aresorted into the categories new, established, consult, and other.The number of unique patients is determined for each location and for all thelocations selected for the report. The sum of the uniques for each locationwill generally be larger than the total number of uniquesbecause a patient may be counted as a unique in more than one location but willonly be counted once for the entire facility.Three visit totals are calculated. A visit is defined as any patient activityat a location in one day. Thus a patient having multiple encounters at alocation on one day will count as one visit. The three visit totals given aretotal visits, inpatient visits, and outpatient visits. The sum of the inpatientand outpatient visits will not be equal to the total visits if a patient hadboth an inpatient and outpatient visit on the same day.For each selected encounter an attempt is made to find an associatedappointment. This is done using the Outpatient Encounter file which provides alink between encounters and appointments. Purpose of Visit data is tabulatedfor each appointment that is found. Purpose of Visit includes the categoriesC&P, 10-10, scheduled, and unscheduled.If there is an appointment without an associated encounter it will not betabulated on this report. Cancelled and no-show appointments do not have anassociated encounter so they cannot be included in this report. Even if theycould, the information on cancelled and no-show appointments stored inScheduling is not complete making it impossible to give accurate counts. |