282N00000X
282N00000X — General Acute Care Hospital
- Grouping
- Hospitals
- Classification
- General Acute Care Hospital
- Specialization
- None — this code IS the classification
- Section
- Non-Individual
Definition
An acute general hospital is an institution whose primary function is to provide inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and non-surgical, to a wide population group. The hospital treats patients in an acute phase of illness or injury, characterized by a single episode or a fairly short duration, from which the patient returns to his or her normal or previous level of activity.
NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.
Other codes under General Acute Care Hospital
These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.
- 282NC0060XCritical Access
- 282NC2000XChildren
- 282NR1301XRural
- 282NW0100XWomen