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Designating a staff member as the "coding expert" for your agency is one way to ensure accurate reimbursement; but the person does not have to be a certified coder to help your agency understand the myriad codes and guidelines.
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Opioid use for patients with advanced illness has been the focus of controversy and misconceptions, even among health care practitioners, an expert notes.
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A recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report recommends that Medicare gradually replace its current fee-for-service payment system with a new pay-for-performance system for its 42 million beneficiaries.
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All home health agency managers understand the need to market their agencies to ensure success. The use of web sites, brochures, sales staff, and communication with referral sources will produce success, but be sure that you are addressing all of your referral sources in your efforts.
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Prolonged starvation causes Wernicke's encephalopathy in spite of oral thiamine supplementation, and permanent neurological deficits may result.
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Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) of the globus pallidus interna (GPi) is an FDA-approved treatment for certain types of dystonia, but previous studies have been limited by a small sample size and/or a lack of adequate controls.
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Patients with sentinel headaches occurring in the 4-week period prior to a subarachnoid hemorrhage have a 10-fold increase in early rebleeding. These patients may benefit from ultra-early treatment including aneurysm obliteration.
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Patients with coronary artery disease who have received intra-coronary, drug-eluding stents (DES) may benefit from longer courses of clopidogrel than is currently standard.
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Patients show reversible MRI signal abnormalities in the CA-1 sector of the hippocampal cornu ammonis early in the course of TGA. They are not correlated with any specific clinical or memory features of the episode.