The following article is written by Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, president of Ellis Medical Consulting. Cage implants are used in fusion procedures to replace the vertebral body the surgeon resects ...
Almost all spinal surgery currently performed involves segmental instrumentation, and non-segmental instrumentation is rarely used. The CPT codes for instrumentation vary based on whether the ...
WOBURN, Mass., June 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc., a medical device company focused on delivering safe treatments to improve surgical efficacy, today announced growing ...
CPT codes for spine surgery may not always fit circumstances, and in some cases this prompts calls for reforms. One of those codes, CPT 62380 has the attention of some spine surgeons. The code, for ...
Clinical documentation improvement programs can help healthcare organizations with better ICD-10 coding and reimbursement accuracy, according to a new Black Book survey of more than 900 health leaders ...
Let's forget about ICD-10 coding for a moment. Let's talk about how medical practices can make more money. There's an urologist in South Carolina who figured it out: "Two years ago Larry Rabon decided ...