Since many of my readers are newer, they may not have gone through all of my old posts (if you did, I give you my deepest condolences). For this reason, I am re-posting some of my favorite oldies. The following appeared in October 2007. The payment system in the US is complex. There are multiple [...]
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Clever title…but I have yet to decode coding. I had a woman come in my office a few weeks ago with some small lumps under her skin on her arm. To get paid for this, I had to code the problem. Fortunately for me, I have an EMR and can immediately look up the code [...]
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If you do much reading of medical blogs, you will come across the word narcotics a lot. Much of the lives of physicians (including myself) deal with medications, and a good portion of these drugs are controlled substances. It occurred to me that many readers might not know what narcotics and controlled substances are. The [...]
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