Reference no: EM133992102

Assignment:

Present-On-Admission (POA) indicators are required for each diagnosis code reported on institutional claim forms. They are used to report whether or not the signs, symptoms, and diagnoses reported on the claim form were documented by the admitting physician at the time the patient was admitted into the hospital. Refer to your textbook and Appendix I in the ICD-10-CM coding manual for more information about POA Reporting Guidelines.

Your discussion post should include the following:

• Summarize the current POA Guidelines.
• Identify the 5 POA Indicators and give their definitions.
• Identify the relationship between the reporting of POA indicators and hospital-acquired conditions (HAC).
• Analyze the connection between the care a hospital provides to a patient and the responsibility the organization should take when a patient suffers an HAC.
• Provide a scenario utilizing one of the 5 POA indicators and in that scenario, indicate which POA indicator you have chosen and why.

Example Scenario: A patient was admitted to the hospital with acute abdominal pain that was determined to be due to acute appendicitis, and the surgeon performed an open appendectomy on the patient. During the recovery period, the patient experienced two episodes of urinary retention that required the placement of a temporary urinary catheter. The POA indicator "N" should be used on the diagnosis of urinary retention, since it was not present on admission and is unrelated to the acute appendicitis.