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CPT Coding for E/M Visits With Wound CareThe service must be performed for a condition unrelated to the scheduled visit and must be a new condition that...
Clinical Care
Pandemic Highlights Need for Urgent Care Clinics for WomenFor years, many women with common but urgent conditions like painful urinary tract infections or excessive bleeding in the aftermath...
Finance
What are the Financial Returns from a Vascular Surgery Line?The section chief of vascular surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center underscores the financial opportunities for health systems related to the...
Clinical Care
Syphilis Cases in California Drive a Record-Setting Year for STDs NationwideFrom 2015 to 2019 alone, cases rose 74%. There were nearly 130,000 cases nationwide in 2019.
Telehealth
Cleveland Clinic's Virtual Second Opinion Program Changes Medical TreatmentNearly three-quarters of recommendations change treatment plans; more than a quarter of opinions result in a change of diagnosis.
Clinical Care
"We Are Not Here or Funded to 'Promote the Best Interest' of the Children," Wrote the Head of a Program for Brain-Damaged InfantsA Florida program promises support to families of severely brain-damaged infants. Instead, parents have been forced to choose between parenting...
Clinical Care
I Received Tips to Look Into How a Hospital Treated Premature Babies. Getting Data Was Nearly Impossible.New Mexico limits the information it collects on neonatal centers. That makes it incredibly challenging to get reliable data, sort...
Clinical Care
No One in This State Is Officially Tracking the Quality of Care in Neonatal CentersWithout a federal system of NICU-specific oversight, regulation of the units falls to each state ? and New Mexico isn't...
Revenue Cycle
CPT Coding for a Subchondroplasty ProcedureOften, a physician will decide to perform a subchondroplasty during arthroscopic joint surgery to treat subchondral bone defects (microfractures).
Finance
City of Hope CEO Reflects on $50M Cancer Care GiftRobert Stone, CEO of City of Hope, discussed the large philanthropic gift from the Lennar Corporation.
Covid-19
Ask KHN-PolitiFact: How Can COVID Vaccines Be Safe When They Were Developed So Fast?The research underpinning these vaccines isn't that new at all. Some of it is decades old. This foundation, combined with...
Covid-19
Scientists Seek COVID Treatment Answers in Cheap, Older DrugsA $10, two-week course of fluvoxamine could reduce death and hospitalizations.