CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. The following article is written by Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, president of Ellis Medical Consulting. Laminectomy with exploration and/or decompression…
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New Jersey's legislature has given final approval to a plan that would force public workers to pay more for benefits, according to a Business Insurance report.
Cuts to Ohio's Medicaid funding could cost the state thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in lost business, according to a study released yesterday by Families USA.
Dan Laird, MD, an anesthesiologist based in Puyallup, Wash., has sued a local anesthesia group alleging he was rejected from the group because he is gay, according to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer report.
New York lawmakers reached a consensus on a less restrictive version of Sen. Kemp Hannon's insurance exchange bill, The New York Health Benefit Exchange Act, which asks the state to set up an exchange as a public benefit corporation with…
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Mississippi health officials are determining how to most effectively set up and operate a health insurance exchange, a program that must be implemented by Jan. 1, 2014, based on the healthcare reform law, according to a Clarion Ledger report.
California healthcare leaders have suggested combining the bureaucracies that police health insurers and HMOs, saying a single agency could better serve the public and handle new requirements through healthcare reform, according to an LA Times report.
CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. CMS has issued its July 2011 update of the hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System, with highlights including the addition of…
CPT copyright 2010 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. The Food and Drug Administration has approved five new tests as waived tests under Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments, according to…
The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services and First Coast recently sent out a policy draft with Local Coverage Determination denying Medicare coverage for multi-level lumbar fusion for symptomatic degenerative disc disease in Florida.