At the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Center Conference in Chicago on Oct. 29, Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, president of Ellis Medical Consulting, gave a presentation titled “How to Improve Coding for ...

Four years ago, researchers warned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that some doctors were overusing — potentially even abusing — invasive vascular procedures, increasing patients' ...

Shelly Cronin, CPC, CPMA, CANPC, CGSC, CGIC, CEU vendor department manager for AAPC, discusses common mistakes made in GI ambulatory surgery center coding and what coders need to know about changes to ...

Performing dialysis access procedures at an outpatient vascular access center (VAC) might be a cheap and efficient alternative to a hospital inpatient setting. Kian and co-workers have recently ...

Re “Patients Lost Limbs as Doctors and Health Care Giants Prospered” (“Operating Profits” series, front page, July 16): A small group of physicians has made millions performing unnecessary or ...

The Medmio app offers one-click charge capture, mobile patient intake, voice recognition and much more. Medmio, a Maryland-based healthcare IT company, announced an expansion of its partnership with ...

Researchers have found a previously unknown genetic factor -- a common non-coding sequence of DNA -- that can either raise or reduce the risk of coronary artery disease or ischemic stroke.

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. The rate of vascular procedures in Brazil dropped ...

Now that unnecessary heart-stent procedures happen significantly less often, doctors are flagging a new area of concern: unnecessary leg stents. Some physicians are stenting leg arteries and removing ...