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Its déjà vu all over again as AMA sticks another set of code changes into the Nervous System section of the CPT Manual.

Here’s the latest good news about coffee: Take enough of it and it might keep prostate cancer from getting worse or coming back.

Elective angioplasties are not exactly life-saving procedures, according to a report (PDF) released last month from the American Medical Association and the Joint Commission.
People with poor to fair oral health are more likely to be infected with the human papillomavirus, according to a recent study published in Cancer Prevention Research.
New primary care physicians are offsetting the number of physicians opting out of Medicare, according to a USA Today story.
It costs an average $20,704 when a patient has a total knee replacement (TKR) – including all of the hospital and physician fees, but the net benefit to society can be almost twice that amount, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).
Readers of the Anesthesia & Pain Coder’s Pink Sheet know that prescribing narcotics might put them on an auditor’s radar. Now there’s one way prescribers can tell they are above average when it comes to writing scripts for narcotics: CVS writes to ask what’s up with that prescription pattern.
With the transition to the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code set looming just more than a year away, many providers are wondering: When will my Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) let me see what its local coverage determinations will look like with ICD-10 diagnosis codes? Yesterday, CMS had an answer.
Pediatric patients at rural emergency rooms and doctors’ offices are benefitting from consultations with specialties via telehealth, according to a new study.
You don’t have to be a psychic to know how a patient will recover from a serious fall related injury.

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