The term encephalopathy broadly refers to brain disease, damage, or malfunction. The primary symptom that is recorded in the medical record is altered mental status. Medical coding companies may have come across the diagnosis of this condition quite often. There are...
People seem to go overboard during the holidays with all kinds of over-indulgences. Physicians have to deal with complaints associated with everything from overeating, binge drinking and dancing the night away to emotional stress and holiday anxiety. Don’t worry...
New regulations, ICD-10 codes, and value-based care are aimed at improving improve care delivery. However, as experienced medical billing companies know, physicians’ practices and hospitals need proactive strategies to optimize revenue cycle management (RCM) in...
According to the National Psoriasis Foundation, up to 30% of people with psoriasis develop psoriatic arthritis (PsA), an inflammatory form of arthritis. It can also occur in people without the skin symptoms of psoriasis. This chronic inflammatory arthritis associated...
As everybody celebrates the holidays, emergency departments and trauma centers are gearing up to treat festivity-related mishaps. Christmas and New Year are full of fun and cheer, but sadly, these are the times when the most accidents happen. Complaints attributable...
