Vascular surgery is performed using a traditional surgical approach and a minimally invasive catheter-based endovascular approach. Arterial embolization is a minimally-invasive procedure that blocks arterial blood flow to a tumor or an abnormal area of tissue,...
General surgery medical coding services ensure comprehensive documentation support for a wide variety of procedures. One of the common conditions that general surgeons treat is umbilical hernia....
Starting 2017, physical therapy medical coding involves three new evaluation codes and a new reevaluation code. The evaluation codes introduced by the final CMS physician fee schedule replace code...
Tonsillitis is inflammation of the tonsils most commonly caused by a viral or bacterial infection. Health professionals who treat this condition include pediatrician, family medicine physician,...
Physician coding companies played a key role in helping healthcare providers across the nation transition to ICD-10. Now recent reports say that there is a glitch in ICD-10, which CMS points out...
The leading cause of death and long-term disability in the U.S., stroke causes loss of neurological function due to a blood clot in the brain or intracranial hemorrhage. One of the most common...
ICD-10 was launched in October 2015 by the World Health Organization (WHO). ICD-10-CM is the United States' clinical modification of the WHO's ICD-10. ICD-10 features a much larger number of...
Success in physician billing services under ICD-10 depends on proper clinical documentation and this is critical for anesthesiology. In addition to obtaining higher reimbursement, changing...
Utilizing Natural Language Processing (NLP) based technology and big data analytics, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health plan has successfully processed millions of clinical...
ICD-10 medical coding includes documenting a range of external causes for injury, and you may need to use these specific codes especially during the winter season. Driving during winter months is...
Behavior change interventions are crucial to address lifestyle modification for disease prevention, long-term disease management and addiction. Every year usually brings important changes in family...