When Congress votes on a longer-term Medicare physician fee-fix, Republicans may tie it to cutting back the healthcare reform law, according to a report by Investors Business Daily.
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Medicaid recovery audit contractors are coming. Each state will choose Medicaid RAC contractors by the end of the year, and contractors will begin operations as early as April 1. Paul Spencer, a consultant at Fi-Med Management in Wauwautosa, Wis., says…
Hospital for Special Surgery researchers completed studies at the hospital's Leon Root, M.D. Motion Analysis Laboratory on the Ekito shoe, the first athletic shoe designed to reduce the incidence of ankle sprains during athletic activity, according to a hospital news…
While hospital procedure volumes are correlated with patient outcomes in total joint arthroplasty, process standardization is also strongly associated with improved quality of care, according to an article published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
Xcel Sports Medicine, an orthopedic and rehabilitation facility in Vandalia, Ohio, recently broke ground on a new facility, according to a Vandalia Drummer News report.
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Peter Millett, MD, is a partner at The Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo. His practice focuses on treating athletes with shoulder injuries, and he has expertise in treating revision shoulder surgery. He has recently been elected to serve on the…
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. Stacey Miller, CPC, is a senior coding review specialist for GENASCIS, a provider of billing, revenue cycle management services and supporting…
Recovery audit contractors are expected to expand beyond hospitals and spend more time on physicians' billing, shifting from automated to complex reviews of these claims, according to Paul Spencer, a consultant at Fi-Med Management in Wauwautosa, Wis.
Mark Lovell, MD, founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Concussion Program and co-creator of ImPACT, recently spoke with the Indiana Gazette about sports-related concussions and how athletes can prevent multiple concussions.