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Dec. 11, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… Digital transformation in health care Digital transformation occurred in earnest a few decades ago in the financial sector. Every sector of the economy from travel, retail […]
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Dec. 11, 2020 / By Allison Morgan, MS, CPC
In our ongoing Evaluation and Management Services blog series, we have delved into several sweeping changes coming to Office or Other Outpatient E/M Services in 2021. Let’s shift our attention […]
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Dec. 9, 2020 / By Steve Delaronde
More than half of Americans receive health insurance through their employer. Two-thirds of covered workers are insured by companies that assume all the risk for health care costs and do […]
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Dec. 7, 2020 / By Rachael Howe, RN, MS
2020 has thrown plenty of curve balls at everyone. One thing that has affected many of our lives is transitioning from in person to virtual work settings. In addition, many […]
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Dec. 4, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
This week’s AI Talk… AlphaFold – Solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google, has released some groundbreaking research! University of Maryland Professor John Moult, who created […]
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Dec. 4, 2020 / By Jean Jones, CPC
So far in our Evaluation and Management Services blog series, we have gone over changes related to medical decision making (MDM), specifically changes to the first, second, and third elements. […]
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Dec. 1, 2020 / By Rhonda Butler
In response to the national emergency declared for the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC has implemented six new ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes and CMS has implemented 21 new ICD-10-PCS procedure codes for […]
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Nov. 30, 2020 / By Precious Porter, RN, BSN
With the recent good news regarding potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, I thought it would be helpful to blog about the vaccine development process and how that process has evolved during the […]
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Nov. 25, 2020 / By L. Gordon Moore, MD
We’re in somewhat uncharted territory when it comes to measuring health care outcomes. Given the radical shifts in elective procedures, people avoiding care due to COVID-19 exposure concerns, and of […]
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Nov. 23, 2020 / By Dannie Greenlee, RN
To keep up with the sheer quantity of SARS-CoV-2 testing and the lack of reagent during the pandemic, laboratories have begun to use the “pooling method.” Originally used as a […]
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Nov. 20, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD
As the number of cases of COVID-19 surge, it is easy to get lost in the negative aspects of the pandemic. This week, I am focusing on three stories that […]
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Nov. 18, 2020 / By Kelly Long, BS, CPC, CPCO, CAPM, Jean Jones, CPC, Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA
So far in our E/M blog series, we have covered the first and second element of medical decision making (MDM). Today we will cover changes to the third and final […]
