Learn how one liver could help 75 patients. The liver possesses an incredible ability to regenerate new tissue if a portion of the organ is removed. Researchers are looking into using the liver’s regenerative ability from the cellular level to [...]
The Senior Medicare Patrol’s recoveries are down, but it’s keeping up the pressure on the hospice industry. Hospices have been feeling scrutiny from regulators for some time, but now it’s coming from a new source — your patients’ peers. “In [...]
In 2020, the Senior Medicare Patrol fraud-fighting program netted about half its $16.8 million in recoveries from a home health investigation (see story, p. 190). For 2021, there’s no mention of home health in the SMP annual report at all, [...]
Majority of code overhaul comes from the cardiovascular system. The ICD-10 codes are finally ready for updating, after a five-year ICD-10 classification system freeze. This October 1, 2016, the first set of ICD-10 annual updates shall be released. “Change seems [...]
Majority of code overhaul comes from the cardiovascular system. The ICD-10 codes are finally ready for updating, after a five-year ICD-10 classification system freeze. This October 1, 2016, the first set of ICD-10 annual updates shall be released. “Change seems [...]
Forget 625.9; you should be using one of two codes instead. Patients often present to an ob-gyn practice complaining of pelvic pain or pain in the perineal, vulvar, vaginal, uterine or ovarian area. This mostly occurs in the lower abdominal [...]
Forget 625.9; you should be using one of two codes instead. Patients often present to an ob-gyn practice complaining of pelvic pain or pain in the perineal, vulvar, vaginal, uterine or ovarian area. This mostly occurs in the lower abdominal [...]
You’ll have an easy transition with these codes. During the Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz (MMK) procedure, the surgeon places sutures into the vaginal wall at the level of the urethra and bladder neck and anchors them to the pubic bone. Possible diagnoses for [...]
You’ll have an easy transition with these codes. During the Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz (MMK) procedure, the surgeon places sutures into the vaginal wall at the level of the urethra and bladder neck and anchors them to the pubic bone. Possible diagnoses for [...]
Question: I placed a mid urethral sling 57288 on a patient on 1/14/15. This was at the same time as a hysterectomy by a gynecological surgeon. The other surgeon requested that I perform cystoscopy for a possible right ureteral injury at [...]
