Raed Mansour
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Public health environmentalist, Metropolitan Planning Council Senior Fellow, Openlands Board, River Park Natural Area Community Steward, Chicago Dept. of Public Health Past Director of Environmental Innovation. #OneHealth ⓥ
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One solution: incentivize heat ICD T & X codes like CMS does for SDOH Z codes promoting comprehensive care, measures impact, improves public health surveillance & payer reimbursement by influencing risk-adjustment calculations. Change this & coding habits will change. Unfortunately, money talks.
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One solution: incentivize heat ICD T & X codes like CMS does for SDOH Z codes promoting comprehensive care, measures impact, improves public health surveillance & payer reimbursement by influencing risk-adjustment calculations. Change this & coding habits will change. Unfortunately, money talks.
In US, undercount of heat-related hospitalizations & deaths has been documented in research for years because healthcare & medical examiners don’t usually code heat as a cause. Summer excess deaths instead, are coded as heart, lung, or kidney disease, age, etc. Can’t manage what you don’t measure.
October 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In US, undercount of heat-related hospitalizations & deaths has been documented in research for years because healthcare & medical examiners don’t usually code heat as a cause. Summer excess deaths instead, are coded as heart, lung, or kidney disease, age, etc. Can’t manage what you don’t measure.