A. Comparable PMRI is required to underwrite health care costs, analyze trends, support probabilities of treatment effectiveness, assess patient risk factors and measure outcomes against a large body of existing information. This meta-data can be manipulated to uncover regional, age, sex or cultural differences in defined populations. B. Comparability should be as precise and accurate as is economically possible. If the PMRI is not accurate, the data capture is flawed. This results in mistakes in the analysis of data.
Data affects proper treatment of patients, delivery costs, provider decisions and research.
A comprehensive understanding of business processes at each point in the health delivery system is essential to the development of any terminology comparisons. To describe the procedures used by providers of acupuncture, chiropractic, holistic medicine, homeopathic, naturopathic, massage therapy, midwifery, nursing and other services regulated by state laws and supported by national training standards. The primary gap in market acceptance is being named as a standard code set. 891 CPT codes crosswalk to this terminology of 4054 procedures. 487 CPT codes in the crosswalk are repetitions of the same CPT code.