Diabetes can lead to a wide variety of health complications such as heart disease, nerve damage, stroke, kidney disease, and vision loss. Diabetes is one of the most common conditions that primary care physicians treat and most providers rely on medical coding...
About 8-11 percent of people in the US suffer from lumbar spinal stenosis and it is expected that the disease will affect around 2.4 million Americans by 2021. The International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery (ISASS) recognizes decompression with...
Surgeons who perform dialysis access and management procedures and the medical billing and coding companies that serve them have to deal with several new CPT codes for dialysis circuit interventions in 2017. According to the CPT manual, the term ‘dialysis circuit’...
According to the Population Reference Bureau, the number of Americans ages 65 and older would more than double from 46 million in 2016 to over 98 million by 2060, and the share of the 65 plus age group in the total population will rise to nearly 24% from 15%. This...
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 97001 and reflect three levels of patient presentation: 97161 –...
