According to the communication between the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Physicians may bill for pharmacist services as part of the “incident to” services provided to Medicare...
A depressive disorder is an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts and interferes with daily life, normal functioning, and causes pain. According to the Stanford School of Medicine, over 9 million American adults suffer from clinical depression each year....
Electronic health records (EHR) is a patient centric information resource for physicians that represent a major domain of health information technology (HIT). The EHR system facilitates improved communication between healthcare providers; promotes patient safety...
Telemedicine has just got a boost with the American Medical Association (AMA) approving a list of the guiding principles presented at its Annual Meeting held from June 7-11, 2014. A component of telehealth, telemedicine generally refers to the provision of...
If you refer to the ICD-10 manual, you will find that the 14,000 ICD-9 codes have exploded into around 68,000 ICD-10 codes. Though the increase in the number of medical codes is bound to make the medical coding process more accurate, some consider the specificity of...
