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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 arteries that supply blood to the heart. This cardiovascular exercise...
For most physicians, arriving at a proper diagnosis is not an easy task as patients’ symptoms and associated disease conditions tend to evolve over time. Physicians are faced with a lot of uncertainty and probabilities on how a medical condition should be pursued so...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that the 2014 Informal Review period has been extended to November 23, 2015. Individual eligible professionals (EPs), Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) practice sites, PQRS group practices, and...
Bronchitis refers to the inflammation of the bronchi and is mainly categorized as acute and chronic bronchitis. If viruses and bacterial infections are the major cause of acute bronchitis, cigarette smoking and air pollution are the causes for chronic bronchitis....
Glaucoma specialists and ophthalmologists are required to pay more attention to their medical coding tasks now since Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) for 2015 has introduced significant changes in glaucoma surgery reporting. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced new changes to its payment systems for the second quarter of 2015. It has published the July 2015 update of Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System (ACS PS). This includes updates to CPT codes and...
Eligibility verification is a crucial step in the revenue management cycle, and oversights and errors in verification can result in considerable loss of revenue for healthcare entities. Outsource Strategies International's (OSI) expertise in providing eligibility...
The expansion of diagnosis codes with ICD-10 makes the endocrinology medical coding process more complex as this specialty involves a wide array of diagnoses and procedures. Endocrinology providers should have a better knowledge about the endocrine system and much...
Cardiac transplantation or heart transplantation is recommended as a treatment for people having severe heart failure and severe symptoms despite providing maximum medical therapy. Heart transplants are costly as well as risky. If you want to receive maximum...
There occurred significant changes in CPT medical coding this year with an estimated 264 new codes, 143 deleted codes, and 134 revised codes and most of these codes do have an effect on primary care physicians. The significant changes in evaluation and management...