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Look for comprehensive payment information for each service. Last month we looked at two ways your practice can bring in more income to upgrade office equipment, adjust care programs, and improve patient outcomes. This month we explore two more revenue-increasing [...]
Hint: Teach your staff about the dangers of phishing. June, July, and August are traditionally steamy, but no one could have predicted that data breaches would be off the charts, too. With over 3.2 million individuals’ protected health information (PHI) [...]
Medication issues top the list. The data miners at the HHS Office of Inspector General have looked hard at inpatient rehab hospitals and tallied up the most common adverse events that cause rehab hospital patients to return to acute care [...]
Your radiology coding tools will need to reflect cystostomy and fracture updates, too.Whether you need a code for pulmonary saddle embolus or coarctation, ICD-9 2012 should offer just what you're looking for.That's the news from recently posted proposed updates to [...]
Question: I have been coding in an ED for a few months and have not had experience in coding aneurysms yet. How would the ED physician treat a patient's aneurysm, and what are the different types of aneurysms we might [...]
Introducing Eli's Home Health Operations Dashboard presented by Eli's Home Care Week and BKD Health Care GroupA pilot wouldn't fly a plane without a complete set of precise, accurate instruments, and neither should an administrator operate a home health agency [...]
Introducing Eli's 2006 Home Health Operations Dashboard presented by Eli's Home Care Week and BKD Health Care Group A pilot wouldn't fly a plane without a complete set of precise, accurate instruments, and neither should an administrator operate a home [...]
Introducing Eli's 2006 Home Health Operations Dashboard presented by Eli's Home Care Week and BKD Health Care Group A pilot wouldn't fly a plane without a complete set of precise, accurate instruments, and neither should an administrator operate a home [...]
Introducing Eli's 2006 Home Health Operations Dashboard presented by Eli's Home Care Week and BKD Health Care GroupA pilot wouldn't fly a plane without a complete set of precise, accurate instruments, and neither should an administrator operate a home health [...]
Albuterol is up but ipratropium bromide is down, latest fee schedule indicates.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its second-quarter Part B drug fees to ambivalent reviews from respiratory drug suppliers. While the fees for some staple drugs will [...]
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