Vaccinations are one of the important universally recommended preventive measures against a number of serious diseases and infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends vaccinations from birth through adulthood to support a lifetime of...
There’s good news for medical coding companies and clinical documentation experts. A Health IT Analytics article reports that a pair of recent industry polls by Black Book show that outsourcing coding and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) efforts has...
Starting January 1, 2017, medical coding companies began using new codes to report administration and scoring of a patient-centered health risk assessment and a caregiver-focused health risk assessment. Health risk assessment tools evaluate a person’s risk of...
Health insurance companies reimburse clinical laboratories and hospital laboratories for microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, biophysical, radiobioassay, cytological, immunohematological, immunological, pathological, or other examinations that...
An article published in the American Journal of Hypertension earlier this year found a rising trend in hospitalization for hypertensive emergency with reduction in hospital mortality during the last decade. Patients with acute cardiorespiratory failure, chest pain,...
