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What Health Care Employers Think of Your Online Degree
When Michael Dawar interviewed for his current job in the health care industry, the fact that he pursued his degree online wasn't viewed as a negative.
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5 Ways Insurance Companies Meddle in Your Health Care
Access to affordable, quality health care affordable, quality health care is the most common concern among American consumers, according to a new Consumer Reports survey. With premiums rising and thefuture of the Affordable Care Act uncertain, more than half of Americans surveyed (57 percent) aren't sure if they or their loved ones will be able to afford health insurance
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What Is Alternative Medicine?
If you've ever stretched out on a yoga mat or popped a probiotic, you may be part of the growing segment of the U.S. population that uses non-conventional therapies to treat medical problems.
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Nursing Homes Get Into the Insurance Business
Around the country, a handful of nursing home companies have begun selling their own private Medicare insurance policies, pledging close coordination and promising to give clinicians more authority to decide what treatments they will cover for each patient.
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Plan Now for Retirement Health Care Costs
During your working years, you likely figured out how to properly manage your monthly budget based on your ongoing stream of income.And aside from the occasional bump in the road, you've probably been able to comfortably cover your everyday expenses
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Where Are Kids When We Talk About Health Care Reform?
The rush to bring needed change to the nation's health care systemis placing America's children at grave risk. But almost no one is talking about it. Children have become the silent victimsof the debate. More than 30 million children in America receive their health care coverage under the Medicaid program, yet in more than 100,000 articles written about health care reform in the last six months, less than 8 percent mention the impact these cuts will have on our children.
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Studies Link Nutrient, Academic Achievement in Pre-adolescent Children
Researchers can look into your eyes to determine whether you’re getting your lutein, a pigment found in green leafy vegetables that is known to accumulate in the brain. Two new studies find that children with higher lutein levels in the eye tend to do better than others on tests of cognition and academic achievement, even after accounting for other factors known to influence academic performance such as IQ, gender, body composition and physical fitness.
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7 Questions to Ask Before You Step Towards Outsourcing Your Cardiology Billing
To attain cent percent perfection at cardiology billing is a far-fetched dream for most specialty clinics because of the extensive experience and knowledge it requires. ICD-10 comes with added complexities which raise the stakes for achieving accuracy. Add to its billing code changes and PMP for treatment of certain imaging procedures that often result in billing errors and stock of trouble for cardiologists keeps piling upward. Billing for cardiology practices requires taking into account multiple procedure rules and complicated contractual adjustments, involving data collection from various sources. Use of modifiers in conjunction with CPT Codes makes it a complex procedure. For example, the codes 93451, 93456, and 93503 cannot be reported with modifier 51. Thus, cardiology billing requires biller to have updated knowledge about deleted codes, revised codes and new codes. A medical practitioner trying to pace up with advancement of cardiac care standards finds it difficult to manage such complexities of billing and coding. Recruiting and retaining staff for in-house billing can incur a lot of money, time and carries risk.
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