The federal government, hospitals and health insurers are working together to reduce the high incidence of preventable readmissions, which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality says clocks in at 4.4 million annual, according to a Wall Street Journal news…
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Great Neck, N.Y.-based North Shore-LIJ Health System has created and awarded three new professorships, each of which come with an endowment, according to a Long Island Business News report.
Lolita Jones, RHIA, CSS, independent coding and billing consultant, discusses five ways ICD-10 will affect patient surgical encounters in an ambulatory surgery center. This article is the third installation in a four-part series.
A prospective study released at the annual meeting of SNM, an imaging organization, showed a molecular imaging procedure provides potential relief for patients who suffer chronic pain after back surgery, according to a release by ScienceDaily.
Merge Healthcare, maker of medical imaging software, plans to acquire Ophthalmic Imaging Systems, maker of ophthalmology imaging software, for $30.3 million, according to a release by Merge Healthcare.
Commissioners of St. Lucie County in Florida will have to vote again on their pain clinic ordinance approved in May because the county failed to follow procedures for new ordinances, according to a report by TC Palm.
An analysis of previous studies shows that waiting longer before beginning chemotherapy after colorectal cancer surgery is associated with lower survival rates, according to the study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Wolters Kluwer Health has announced the release of a query tool that, as part of ProVation MD for gastroenterology procedure documentation and coding, streamlines the collection of quality data for the GI Quality Improvement Consortium Ltd. (GIQuIC) benchmarking initiative.
mdStrategies, a full service coding company, has announced is has entered into a strategic partnership with Transcription Solutions, a medical transcription services organization.
David T. Grinbergs, DO, FACEP, has joined TeamHealth as president of the emergency medicine division, according to a TeamHealth release.