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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-28188

Claim and Encounter diagnosis and Encounter procedure should be harmonized

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    • FHIR Core (FHIR)
    • R5
    • Patient Administration
    • Encounter
    • encounter diagnosis
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      As part of the R5 changes, the Encounter.reason and Encounter.diagnosis elements were updated significantly.  Note that for procedures. Encounter.reason expresses those procedures that are the reason for the encounter taking place, but those procedures that were actually done are represented as Procedures that refer back to this Encounter.

       

      Account was also updated to include a ranked structure for diagnoses and procedures to reflect the needs of billing systems.

       

      The Claim and Account resources encompasses data that is related to the encounter, but which may not be in either Encounter.reason or Encounter.diagnosis.  

       

      Given that Claim and Account offer the necessary structures to document billing related  content, we are reluctant to make further changes to Encounter to accommodate billing specific content that is better documented on the financial resources.

       

       

       

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      As part of the R5 changes, the Encounter.reason and Encounter.diagnosis elements were updated significantly.  Note that for procedures. Encounter.reason expresses those procedures that are the reason for the encounter taking place, but those procedures that were actually done are represented as Procedures that refer back to this Encounter.   Account was also updated to include a ranked structure for diagnoses and procedures to reflect the needs of billing systems.   The Claim and Account resources encompasses data that is related to the encounter, but which may not be in either Encounter.reason or Encounter.diagnosis.     Given that Claim and Account offer the necessary structures to document billing related  content, we are reluctant to make further changes to Encounter to accommodate billing specific content that is better documented on the financial resources.      
    • Brian Postlethwaite / Rick Lisseveld : 5-0-0

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      Add Claim.diagnosis.

      Note – For “rank” the definitions vary a bit:

       

      Claim and Encounter (different HL7 WGs) define encounter-diagnosis and encounter-procedure differently - the two should be aligned and use the same components for consistency and to avoid confusion and provider burden.

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