In the complex and ever-evolving world of healthcare, medical coding plays a vital role in ensuring accurate and streamlined documentation. It is a standardized system that assigns specific codes to medical diagnoses, procedures, and services provided to patients....
Diverticular disease is a common gastrointestinal condition encountered by primary care physicians and gastroenterologists. It occurs as people age. While diverticulosis occurs when pouches...
An aggressive form of chemical drug therapy, chemotherapy is used to destroy rapidly growing cells in the body. Often called chemo, the treatment uses powerful chemicals to kill, slow down/prevent...
Critical care medicine specialists diagnose and treat a wide variety of diseases. A multidisciplinary team approach is needed to care for critically ill patients. Though there are only two codes for...
Winter is here and you need to be extra careful with your health as heavy snow, ice, strong winds and freezing rain are expected. While this is the holiday season, there is also the possibility of...
Affecting 6.8 million people in United States, alopecia areata is a common autoimmune disorder that often leads to unpredictable hair loss. The disease develops when the body's immune system...
On October 1, 2019, several changes came into effect in the ICD-10 codes for pediatrics. These ICD-10 code updates will impact family practice medical billing, and family practitioners need to...
A fetal ultrasound or sonogram is a test that uses high-frequency sound waves to produce images of the developing baby in the uterus. This fetal imaging tool can accurately determine gestational...
According to recent reports, severe blasts of potentially record cold are expected during across the central, eastern and southern U.S in the days before Thanksgiving, giving millions of people an...
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Celebrated annually on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, Thanksgiving Day is a holiday. This day precedes “Black Friday” and is celebrated to give thanks for the food collected...
Regarded as one of the most common sports related elbow injuries, tennis elbow is a condition that causes pain and inflammation around the outside of the elbow. Also called lateral epicondylitis,...