At the beginning of April, President Obama signed the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 into law. This act delayed both a 24 percent reduction in Medicare rates and the ICD-10 implementation. So how will the ICD-10 implementation delay affect your outpatient center?
In this article, Carrie Pallardy of Becker’s ASC Review, discusses the pros and cons of this delay in regards to their impact on outpatient surgical centers. Topics covered include staff training, physician education, software updates, technology updates, dual coding preparation and testing. Learn more here.
Are your patients following a low-dose aspirin regimen thinking it will reduce their risk of stroke, heart attack or heart disease? According to researchers and the 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, they should stop immediately. Three recent studies have found that aspirin therapy may not be benefiting them. And, in some cases, it could be doing harm.
As healthcare professionals, we hear a lot about hypertension and its negative effect on overall health. But, we don’t talk as much as we should about pulmonary hypertension (PH) — the type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries that run between the lungs and heart. Because PH is a progressive condition that if untreated can result in death in as little as two years, it deserves its own spotlight.
The majority of men are still so private when it comes to their health concerns, they don’t even discuss them with a doctor. That’s one of the revelations reported by the Cleveland Clinic in their newest nationwide survey of male patients.
