For purposes of Medicare, level III codes were also referred to as local codes. Local codes were established when an insurer preferred that suppliers use a local code to identify a service, for which there is no level I or level II code, rather than use a miscellaneous or not otherwise classified code..
The average age of first time mothers has risen to new highs, according to new federal data. The average age of women having a child for the first time rose from close to 25 in 2000 to around 26 in 2014, according to a new report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics.
The average age of first birth for this group is lower than the average marriage age. For women who dropped out of high school, the average age of first birth is 20, while the average marriage age is 25; 83 percent of first births in this demographic are to unmarried mothers.or women who graduated from high school and went to some college, the average age for first birth is 24 and the average marriage age is 27; 58 percent of first births are to unwed mothers.