Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are among the most serious and fatal disorders affecting Americans. CVD disorders affect the heart or blood vessels. Stroke, IHD (ischemic heart disease), RHD (rheumatic heart disease), congenital heart disease, hypertensive heart...
According to the American Parkinson’s Disease Association, approximately 60,000 people are newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) each year. Accurate diagnosis of this disease is very important as researches have shown there is higher morbidity rate for...
Though Electronic Health Records (EHRs) can support appropriate documentation for billing higher level evaluation and management (E/M) services for Medicare, cloning of medical records or copying the content from previous visits with EHR can defy the purpose. In...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has added seven new payment codes in their 2015 physician fee schedule for telehealth services. This is a big breakthrough for the telehealth service industry which has been pushing for these changes since a few years. The 7...
CPT code 99205 is a high-level evaluation and management code used for the evaluation and management of new patients, for both office and outpatient visits. CPT code 99205 can be selected for new patient visits lasting 60+ minutes on the date of encounter. The total...
