Suicide methods named so for their association with legends of romantic tragedy. Suicide methods A suicide method is any means by which a person completes suicide, purposely ending their life. Suicide by cutting might involve exsanguination, infarction, septic shock from certain ruptures such as appendicitis, or drowning from a lung contusion. Exsanguination involves reducing the volume and pressure of the blood to below critical levels by inducing massive blood loss. It is usually the result of damage inflicted on arteries. The carotid, radial, ulnar or femoral arteries may be targeted. Death may occur directly as a result of the desanguination of the
Medically Unlikely Edit until 2009, with some of them remaining confidential out of concern for abuse . MUE are not intended to be utilization guidelines. Units less than listed may be inappropriate. It is difficult to establish to what extent private payers are using NCCI edits. Other than published CMS edits, there are no nationally recognized code edits, although there have been proposals to create some. A 2005 study found that private payers were applying "CPT codes, guidelines and conventions", "CMS payment rules", "National Correct Coding Initiative", and "Payer-specific proprietary edits" to claim, of these about 25% were "Payer-specific proprietary edits" Medically Unlikely