A coronary angiogram or angiography is a common procedure that uses X-ray imaging to see your heart’s blood vessels such as an artery or vein. This test is performed to see if there is any restriction or abnormality in blood flow going to the heart. Typically,...
The American Medical Association (AMA) released several changes to CPT codes and descriptors during its 2018 CPT and RBRVS symposium held in Chicago Nov. 15-17. Physicians and their medical coding service providers need to prepare themselves for a total of 312 edits...
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...
Each year brings CPT coding changes for most medical specialties, and anesthesia is no exception. ICD-10 also brought in many changes for anesthesia. Since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its final rule for the CY2018 Medicare Physician...
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...