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Case Study Readmission Unlinked after P2P

Case Study: Unlinking a Readmission Hospitalization During a Peer-to-Peer Payer Review

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CLINICAL SUMMARY: A 70-year-old patient arrived in the Emergency Department (ED) from an assisted living facility (ALF) as his renal function deteriorated, and he slipped into a severely depressive state. The patient appeared pale and withdrawn, and the ALF staff reported that the patient did not eat or drink for approximately three weeks. Additionally, the […]

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Case Study: Readmission Linking Denial Overturned After P2P

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CLINICAL SUMMARY: A 79-year-old male patient arrived in the emergency department (ED) complaining of weakness, extreme lethargy and the inability to eat for the past three days. The patient’s past medical history included prostate cancer s/p resection with metastases to the bladder and lumbar spine on antiandrogen, hypothyroidism, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, CAD s/p stent placement x2,

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Case Study: Readmission Linking for Hospital Stays Reversed

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CLINICAL SUMMARY: Recently, physicians admitted a 73-year-old patient with an extensive medical history twice within an 8-day period. The patient required inpatient level of care (LOC) for both hospitalizations. The patient was hospitalized with pneumonia during the first inpatient stay, and the second inpatient hospitalization addressed exacerbated congestive heart failure (CHF). The patient arrived for

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