By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- A new study on Managed Care is now available. According to news reporting originating in Atlanta, Georgia, by NewsRx journalists, ...

Medically known as stenosing tenosynovitis, trigger finger is a disorder wherein a finger locks in a bent position. This happens due to inflammation or tendon sheath narrowing, which makes finger ...

Criminal law occupies a pre-dominant place among the agencies of social control and is regarded as a formidable weapon that the society has forged to protect itself against anti-social behaviour. The ...

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CPT codes for spine surgery may not always fit circumstances, and in some cases this prompts calls for reforms. One of those codes, CPT 62380 has the attention of some spine surgeons. The code, for ...

Value-focused patient care is transforming medical practice. As rising healthcare costs in the United States challenge the widely used fee-for-service architecture, innovative, patient-centered care ...

The Medicare Inpatient Only (IPO) list details the procedures that Medicare will cover in an inpatient setting. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) releases the IPO list each year. The ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

"We believe the confusion comes from the typical lexicon surgeons use when performing surgeries, rather than the actual code descriptor and the procedure performed," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and ...

"From a coding standpoint and from the work performed and valuation of the work and descriptors, it is appropriate to report the dilation (50436 without or 50437 with new access as appropriate) along ...

“We're a long way from robots running off with patient care,” said Richard Frank, MD, PharmD, a member of the AMA Current Procedural Terminology (CPT ®) Editorial Panel. Dr. Frank, the former chief ...

Insurance codes are used by your health plan to make decisions about your prior authorization requests and claims, and to determine how much to pay your healthcare providers. Typically, you will see ...