The current terminology has the following for billing diagnosis modifiers:
Admit Billing Diagnosis
Principal Discharge Diagnosis
Diagnosis Present on Admission
Secondary Billing Diagnosis
Based on some emails around the time of the modifiers were added, I think the
terminology should be:
Admit
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Subject: Diagnosis Modifiers on Babel
The current terminology has the following for billing diagnosis modifiers:
Admit Billing Diagnosis
One questions is the source of the data
It is from the problem list or from billing data
In our research we were just going through this as we don't want a limited
number of diagnoses that get on a bill so we can understand the cluster of
problems patients have that could influence outcomes such
