Immediate medical services for the examination, diagnosis, care, and treatment of a patient because of severe episodes of illness. Usually, acute care is given in a hospital by specialized personnel and use of sophisticated technical equipment. It may be intensive care, critical care, or emergency care.
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Acute illness
Sickness that is usually of short-term duration and that often comes on quickly.
Acute Long Term Hospital Association (ALTHA)
Organization formed to protect patient access to quality long-term hospital care; formerly known as Long Term Acute Care Hospital Association of America (LTACHA). Long Term Acute Care Hospitals (LTACHs) are hospitals that provide patients with acute care for extended inpatient stays (defined by federal statute as an average of 25 days or more). ALTHA works to protect the rights of medically complex patients and the hospitals that treat them by educating federal and state regulators, members of Congress, and health care industry colleagues. ALTHA also works to increase quality of care by sharing and improving best practices among its hospital members.
AD
1. HCPCS Level II modifier that may be used with CPT or HCPCS Level II codes indicating physician supervision for more than four concurrent anesthesia procedures. Use of this modifier affects Medicare payment. 2. Abbreviation for administrative director. See administrative director (AD).
Ad Valorem
Duty evaluated on parentage of cargo value.
Ad valorem bill of lading
A bill recording the amount that the shipper has declared to the carrier as the cargo’s value. If the carrier is liable for loss or damage to cargo his liability will be for the amount in the bill.
Ad valorem freight rate
Freight based on the cargo’s value rather than weight or volume.
Add On peril under Standard Fire and Special Perils Policy (Material Damage) for Forest Fire
On payment of additional premium the Policy is extended to cover loss or damage to the property insured directly caused by burning, whether accidental or otherwise, of forest, jungles and the clearing of lands by Fire.
Add-on code
Procedural code in the CPT book that is preceded with a plus (+) symbol indicating the code may be reported in addition to the parent or primary procedure code number (see Box A-1 ). Add-on codes are never reported for stand-alone services but are reported secondarily in addition to the primary procedure.Box A-1ADD-ON CODEParent code 11000Biopsy of skin … single lesion each separate/additional lesion (list separately in addition to code for primary procedure)Add-on code +11101
Add-on code symbol (+)
Symbol used in the procedure code book titled Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) to indicate the code may be reported in addition to the primary procedure code number.