Florida Administrative Code › 59 - AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION › 59B - Cost Management and Control › Chapter 59B-9 - PATIENT DATA COLLECTION, AMBULATORY SURGERY AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT › Section 59B-9.031 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) "Ambulatory Center." For the purposes of
				this rule, "ambulatory center" means a freestanding ambulatory surgical center,
				short-term acute care hospital, emergency department, or freestanding cardiac
				catheterization laboratory.
(2)
				"Ambulatory Surgical Center" means a facility licensed as an ambulatory
				surgical center under Chapter 395, F.S.
(3) "CPT" means Current Procedural
				Terminology and refers to a coding system established by the American Medical
				Association to describe physician services which is published annually in
				Physicians' Current Procedural Terminology manual which is incorporated by
				reference.
(4) "ECMORB" means a
				Supplementary Classification of External Causes of Morbidity and Poisoning
				ICD-10-CM, where environmental events, circumstances, and conditions are the
				cause of injury, poisoning and other adverse effects as specified in the
				ICD-10-CM manual and the conventions of coding.
(5) "Emergency Department" means any
				department of any general hospital when a request is made for emergency
				services and care for any emergency medical condition which is within the
				service capability of the hospital as specified in Section
				395.1041, F.S.
(6) "Executive Officer" means a reporting
				facility's chief executive officer, chief financial officer, chief operating
				officer, president, or vice president of the facility in charge of a principal
				business unit, division or function (administration or finance).
(7) "HCPCS" means Health Care Common
				Procedure Coding System which is published annually by the United States
				Department of Health and Human Services and is required by the Federal
				Government for Medicare reporting purposes.
(8) "Inpatient" means a patient who has an
				admission order given by a licensed physician or other individual who has been
				granted admitting privileges by the hospital.
(9) "NPI" means National Provider
				Identification. An NPI is a unique identification number assigned to a provider
				by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
(10) "Short-Term Acute Care Hospital" means a
				hospital as defined in Section
				395.002(12),
				F.S.
(11) "Visit" means a face to
				face encounter between a health care provider and a patient who is not formally
				admitted as an inpatient in an acute care hospital setting at the time of the
				encounter or who is not admitted to the same facility's acute care hospital
				setting immediately following the encounter as described in subsection
				59B-9.034(3),
				F.A.C. Visits which require the patient to appear in an ambulatory setting
				prior to the actual procedure (even if this occurs one or more days before the
				procedure) shall be counted as one visit. The admit date in these instances
				should be the day of the procedure.
(12) ISO 3166 - International Standard for
				Organization is a standardized list of country names and codes first published
				in 1974 and updated 2008. ISO 3166 is available at:
http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements
.
(13) "Cardiac catheterization laboratory" as
				defined in Section 408.07, F.S.
(14) "FDDC" means Florida Discharge Data
				Collection system. An online portal for all data collection applications
				including, but not limited to, quarterly data submissions, facility contact
				information, exemption requests, resubmission requests and
				certification.
Rulemaking Authority 408.15(8) FS. Law Implemented 408.061,
					 408.062, 408.063 FS.
New 1-1-10, Amended 12-5-10 Formerly
					 59B-9.013, Amended 10-1-15,
					 2-16-23.