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Coding for hand treatment and procedures presents unique challenges that Mary LeGrand, RN, MA, CCS-P, CPC, addresses in an article published in AAOS Now.

Surgeons at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have launched a hand transplant program and expect to perform the first hand transplant procedure in North Texas within the next year, according to a UT Southwestern news release.

Despite the bipartisan support for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Meaningful Use Incentive Program, the Budget Control Act of 2011 may cause reductions to the program if the Joint Committee's cost cutting proposal isn't up to snuff, according…

This article was written by Blair Rhode, MD, Sports Medicine Orthopedic Surgeon and owner, RoG Sports Medicine.

A recent study led by Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, an interventional pain management physician and president of American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, showed that the rate of injections for back pain has more than doubled in Illinois between 2002 and…

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