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Pain management can be a successful specialty for ASCs looking to add or enhance this line of revenue to their centers. According to the VMG Health's 2009 Intellimarker, around 17 percent of surgery centers' total case volume was due to…
Editor's Note: This article by Paul Cadorette, director of education for mdStrategies, originally appeared in The Coding Advocate, mdStrategies free monthly newsletter. Sign-up to receive this newsletter by clicking here.CPT copyright 2008 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is…
Coding is a very detail-oriented process; however, certain surgical specialties require more documentation for procedures than others. Pain management, due to a high concentration of workers' compensation and motor vehicle accident cases, is one such specialty that requires extra attention…