Table 1 Types of Encounters as Reported in RPMS and Categorization for Utilization Analysis
Category for Analysis | Category for Analysis |
|---|---|
Reported Encounter Type [a] | Reported Encounter Type |
Community encounters | Specialty outpatient (cont.) |
Home Care | Chronic Disease |
School | Colposcopy |
Counseling/behavior | Complementary Medicine |
Alcohol and Substance | Day Surgery |
Behavioral Health | Dermatology |
Day Treatment | Diabetic (including Footcare and Retinopathy) |
Diabetes Education | Dialysis |
Education Classes | Dietary |
General Preventive | Endocrinology |
Group Services | ENT |
Medical Social Services | Family Planning |
Mental Health | High Risk |
Telebehavioral Health | Medication Therapy Management |
Tobacco Cessation Clinic | Nephrology |
Wellness | Neurology |
Dental | Obesity |
Emergency | Ob/Gyn |
Emergency Medicine | Ophthalmology |
Triage | Optometry |
Urgent Care | Orthopedic |
Inpatient | Pain Management |
Labor and Delivery | Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy |
Observation | Plastic Surgery |
Hospitalization (if DRG listed) [b] | Podiatry |
Primary Care Outpatient | Postpartum |
Elder Care | Pulmonology |
Family Practice | Radiation Exposure Screening |
General | Rehabilitation |
Immunization | Respiratory Care |
Internal Medicine | Rheumatology |
Pediatric | Speech Pathology/Speech Therapy |
Well Child | Sports Medicine |
Specialty Care Outpatient | STD |
Anesthesiology | Surgical |
Anticoagulation Therapy | Teen Clinic |
Audiology | Traditional Medicine |
Cancer Screening | Urology |
Cardiology | Women’s Health Screening |
Chest and TB | Wound Care |