Exsanguination Exsanguination Exsanguination is the loss of blood to a degree sufficient to cause death. One does not have to lose all of one's blood to cause death. Depending upon the age, health, and fitness level of the individual, people can die from losing half to two-thirds of their blood; a loss of roughly one-third of the blood volume is considered very serious. Even a single deep cut can warrant suturing and hospitalization, especially if trauma, a vein or artery, or another comorbidity is involved. It is most commonly known as "bleeding to death" or colloquially as "bleeding out". The word
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