An offer of money; the act by which one individual offers someone who is holding a claim or demand against him or her the amount of money that the offeror regards and admits is due, in order to satisfy the claim or demand, in the absence of any contingency or stipulation attached to the offer.
Emergency ICD-9-CM: Coding Signs and Symptoms in the ED to Justify Diagnosis Tests, Services. Its a common diagnosis coding dilemma in EDs across the country: A patient comes in complaining of severe chest pain. It might be a heart attack, or it might be a bad case of indigestion. To the patient, the symptoms can be the same.
Depression has been identified as the most common psychiatric illness in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), but its prevalence has varied widely in different studies, in different populations, using different assessment tools (2,3,7).