Congress should enact legislation to require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate transitioning to a single modern procedure coding system to eliminate excess costs and lower ...

Often, a physician will decide to perform a subchondroplasty during arthroscopic joint surgery to treat subchondral bone defects (microfractures). A version of this article was first published April 1 ...

While CPT provides a parenthetical statement under CPT 29827 (Arthroscopy, shoulder, surgical; with rotator cuff repair), when directing the CPT user to report 23412 for mini open rotator cuff repair ...

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Too little attention is paid to documentation, coding, and billing in many medical practices. For patients, documentation simply means that your doctor is providing an account of your visit in your ...

Criteria used by payers to determine how to code and support the use of various genomic profiling assays used in oncology. Bruce Feinberg, DO: Before we get to billing, whether it was 50, 150, or 500 ...

Nearly five years have passed since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the first prescription digital therapeutic (PDT), and nearly another dozen have followed. PDTs are defined as ...

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When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The healthcare industry in Texas continues to expand. As the population ages, the need for medical services grows. Increasing medical services means higher demand for medical billers and coders who ...