by Outsource Strategies International | Posted: Apr 12, 2018 | Industry News, Resources
On October 1, 2017, practice management and electronic health record systems updated the code sets for pain medicine. New ICD-10 codes in 2018 allow pain physicians and medical coding outsourcing companies to report spinal stenosis with a higher level of specificity...
by Outsource Strategies International | Posted: Apr 5, 2018 | Industry News, Resources
ICD-10 2018 expands the code choices for pulmonary hypertension (PHT). Reporting PHT correctly, as experienced coders in medical coding companies know, depends on having a proper understanding of hypertension and hypertension groupings. Pulmonary Hypertension...
by Outsource Strategies International | Posted: Mar 29, 2018 | Articles, Resources
Recent reports show that there is no decline in obesity rates in the US. According to a recently released CDC study, the overall rate of obese adults rose from 33.7 percent in 2007 to 39.6 percent in 2016. This is despite the public health campaign to rein in the...
by Outsource Strategies International | Posted: Mar 22, 2018 | Industry News, Resources
Physician practices are facing more than 845 ICD-10 changes, including 454 additions, 142 deletions, and over 250 revisions in 2018. The ICD-10 code set for 2018 includes quite a few changes of interest to ob-gyns. The updates for women’s health include new,...
by Outsource Strategies International | Posted: Mar 15, 2018 | Industry News, Resources
About 6 million patients seek laceration treatment in emergency departments every year, according to a 2017 American Family Physician report. Primary care physicians also provide urgent laceration treatment. The goal of laceration treatment is to repair a wound safely...