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Epilepsy Hospital Units
Healthcare Taxonomy Code 273100000X
An Epilepsy Unit is a distinct part of a hospital that provides services including observation, urgent care, diagnostic testing, treatment, and medication management for patients with seizure disorders.
Medicare Defined Swing Bed Hospital Units
Healthcare Taxonomy Code 275N00000X
A unit of a hospital that has a Medicare provider agreement and has been granted approval from HCFA to provide post-hospital extended care services and be reimbursed as a swing-bed unit.
Psychiatric Hospital Units
Healthcare Taxonomy Code 273R00000X
In general, a distinct unit of a hospital that provides acute or long-term care to emotionally disturbed patients, including patients admitted for diagnosis and those admitted for treatment of psychiatric problems based on physicians’ orders and approved nursing care plans.
Long-term care may include intensive supervision to the chronically mentally ill, mentally disordered or other mentally incompetent persons; For Medicare, a distinct part of a general acute care hospital admitting only patients whose admission to the unit is required for active treatment, whose treatment is of an intensity that can be provided only in an inpatient hospital setting, and whose condition is described by a psychiatric principal diagnosis contained in the Third Edition of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or in Chapter 5 (Mental Disorders) of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM).
The unit must furnish, through qualified personnel, psychological services, social work services, psychiatric nursing, occupational therapy, and recreational therapy.
The unit must maintain medical records that permit determination of the degree and intensity of treatment provided to individuals who are furnished services in the unit; the unit must meet special staff requirements in that the unit must have adequate numbers of qualified professional and supportive staff to evaluate inpatients, formulate written, individualized, comprehensive treatment plans, provide active treatment measures and engage in discharge planning.
Rehabilitation Hospital Units
Healthcare Taxonomy Code 273Y00000X
In general, a distinct unit within a general acute care hospital provides a comprehensive array of rehabilitation services for people with disabilities, along with all support services necessary to help patients attain their maximum functional capacity.
For Medicare, a distinct part of a general acute care hospital that provides inpatient rehabilitation services and meets the following requirements.
The Rehabilitation Units ensure that patients receive close medical supervision and that rehabilitation services are provided by qualified personnel. These services include nursing care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and, as needed, speech therapy, social services, psychological services, and orthotic and prosthetic services.
Each inpatient has an individualized treatment plan established, reviewed, and revised as necessary by a physician in consultation with other professional staff involved in the patient’s care.
A coordinated multidisciplinary team approach is used to rehabilitate each inpatient, with periodic clinical entries documented in the patient’s medical record to track progress toward treatment goals. Team conferences are held at least every two weeks to assess the appropriateness of the treatment plan.
The unit is overseen by a director of rehabilitation who provides services for at least 20 hours per week.
This director must be a doctor of medicine or osteopathy, licensed under state law to practice medicine or surgery, and must have completed at least two years of training or experience in managing inpatients requiring rehabilitation services, following a one-year hospital internship.nship.ip.
Substance Use Disorder Rehabilitation Hospital Units
Healthcare Taxonomy Code 276400000X
A distinct part of a hospital that provides medically monitored, interdisciplinary addiction-focused treatment to patients/clients who have psychoactive substance use disorders (commonly referred to as alcohol and drug abuse or substance abuse.)