Hospitals that receive Medicare payments are required to accept them for the full value of the care and cannot bill the patients for the difference between Medicareâs reimbursement and the billed charges, meaning that the hospitals are implicitly willing to accept the amount paid by Medicare for the services rendered.
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis, is a rare autoimmune disease marked by a sudden, widespread attack of inflammation in the brain and spinal cord. As well as causing the brain and spinal cord to become inflamed, ADEM also attacks the nerves of the central nervous system and damages their myelin insulation, which, as a result, destroys the white matter. It is often triggered after the patient has received a viral infection or, perhaps exceedingly rare
Not to be confused with Anencephaly. Encephalopathy /ÉnËsÉfÉËlÉpÉÎ¸i/ means disorder or disease of the brain. In modern usage, encephalopathy does not refer to a single disease, but rather to a syndrome of overall brain dysfunction; this syndrome can have many different organic and inorganic causes.