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The Canadian Health Care System: Just Like Ours
Why paying for health care is so difficult: a gigantic, complex raft of billing codes which are seemingly designed to haunt you in your sleep. With thousands of codes, and with frequent revisions to...
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Using ICD-9 Codes To Describe Your Morning
PLACE OF OCCURRENCE, HOME ICD-E849.0 6:00 AM Alarm goes off. Hit snooze button. CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP D/O IRREG SLEEPWAKE TYPE ICD-327.33 6:30 Alarm goes off for third time. Ready to hit snooze...
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Documenting To Death: Are EMRs Eroding The Soul Of Medicine?
Electronic medical record systems (EMRs) have become a part of the work flow for more than half of all physicians in the U.S. and incentives are in place to bring that number up to 100% as soon as...
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If Attorneys Billed Like Physicians
Imagine if lawyers had to bill like doctors: Beginning July 1, 2010, under the Legal Billing Obfuscation Act of 2009, lawyers will receive their payments for services rendered after approval by a...
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Your Doctor Will Now Be Fined For Putting Time With You Above Time With Your...
It’s an age-old problem, made more complicated by our new era of electronic medical records: optimizing collections in a time of unprecedented price pressures on our health care complex. With the...
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