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If you don't bill and code correctly, you could be leaving money on the table, in addition to being noncompliant, warns Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, president, Ellis Medical Consulting in Brentwood, TN. Ellis spoke at a recent coding seminar held by the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.
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Splashes and splatters can transmit disease effectively, but many institutions don't adequately protect against this risk, says Susan Y. Parnell, RN, MSN, MPH, CIC, director of employee health clinical services at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.
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(Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on the benefits of a marketing director. In this issue, we tell you about the successes of a former RN who increased referrals while working part-time as the marketing director of a surgery center. In next month's issue, we tell you about the benefits of having a full-time director with a marketing background.)
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It is viable for your facility to be out of network in a world dominated by powerful insurance payers? The answer is a definite . . . maybe.
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In this prospective, population-based study of 13,549 middle-age black and white men and women in four U.S. communities, who, at the time of enrollment were free of cancer and cardiovascular disease, the investigators showed that abdominal obesity raised the risk of stroke in all groups, men and women, white and black.
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The authors hypothesize that postictal autonomic dysregulation, as measured by decreased heart rate variability, is a key factor in sudden death in epileptics.
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Pramipexole has more than a simple additive benefit in augmenting the motor benefits of levodopa, but also increases the duration and severity of dyskinesias.
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Colocalized PET-CT is the most sensitive and accurate method for identifying an underlying neoplasm in paraneoplastic neurological syndromes.
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Three phase III clinical trials of two oral agents for the treatment of multiple sclerosis were found to have a beneficial effect on clinical and MRI markers of disease activity, but there is a heightened concern for long-term safety due to cases of malignancy reported in each of the three studies.