AAPC's director of curriculum, Katherine Abel, CPC, CPMA, CEMC, CPC-I, highlighted several "misunderstood modifiers" in the most recent CMA Today, according to an AAPC report.
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The average salary for full-time quality professionals in the United States increased nearly 2 percent in 2011 over the average salary in 2010, according to an ASQ news release.
Around 9.3 million American adults lost health insurance coverage during the recession of 2007-2009, according to a study published by researchers at Cornell, Indiana and Carnegie Mellon universities.
State healthcare spending per person varies widely across the country, with Massachusetts leading the list at $9,728 per resident and Utah bringing up the rear at $5,031, according to a CMS report.
The average research participant does not have the reading ability to fully understand informed consent documents, creating vulnerability in what is intended to protect patients from abuse, according to an Anesthesiology News report.
The concern that stopping smoking shortly before surgery increases postoperative pulmonary complication is unsubstantiated, according to a study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic, published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
A new outpatient surgery center has opened in Columbus, Ga., according to a Ledger-Enquirer report.
General Electric Co. has announced plans to create a joint venture between its healthcare IT business and Microsoft Corp. aimed at developing and marketing an open, interoperable technology platform and clinical applications focused on population health management intended to improve…
Mirage Endoscopy Center, a joint venture between physicians and Eisenhower Medical Center managed by Health Inventures, sits in the Coachella Valley in Rancho Mirage, Calif., a warm, sunny area flooded with retirees. The large population of elderly people means that…
David Caraway MD, PhD, pain management specialist and board member for the North American Neuromodulation Society, talks about five concepts that will be discussed at the 2011 North American Neuromodulation Society Meeting in Las Vegas this week.