The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule released annually by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) updates the standards for physician reimbursement and policies related to health care services. While these updates address Medicare medical billing...
Rehabilitation therapy is provided to patients to help them get back to their previous healthy level of musculoskeletal function after experiencing any kind of disruptive event such as an injury,...
Cervical disc disorders and displacements are the other common conditions treated at orthopedic practices apart from fractures and injuries. With the implementation of ICD-10, practices require more...
As per the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS), fractures that result from osteoporosis occur most often in the spine. They are almost twice as common as other osteoporosis related...
There are around 68,000 billing codes under the ICD-10 medical coding system compared to 13,000 codes under ICD-9. This massive expansion of diagnostic codes is intended to smooth billing processes...
The holiday season is here. Stay safe this Holiday Season. Often more number of injuries, falls and hospital visits occur during holiday seasons. According to the report from the United States...
Outpatient coding refers to assigning medical codes for the services provided for a patient who is treated in a free-standing or hospital-based clinical setting and is under care for less than 24...
Family practice physicians should not only understand the basic changes with the ICD-10 to successfully prepare for ICD-10 implementation but also the additional documentation details the changes...
The properties of some drugs, medicinal and biological substances or their combinations may cause toxic reactions in patients. The ICD-9-CM coding system has classified these reactions into adverse...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more people in the United States are addicted to nicotine (the drug found in tobacco) than any other drug. Many clinics are...
Treadmill stress testing is a diagnostic test that uses treadmill bicycle and helps physicians to check how well their patient’s heart handles the work and whether the blood supply is reduced in the...