Business of Medicine
News
CMS releases ICD-10-CM valid codes and code titles
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a complete list of the 2016 ICD-10-CM valid codes and code titles in a downloadable...
News
Pushing policy makers to take skin diseases seriously
Commentary
Whispered pectoriloquy
Too many clinicians struggle with systems and describe data that reflect things they have not done, all due to the use of EHR default settings...
News
Coding mistakes lead to $35 million in drug overpayments
An audit by the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) discovered that Medicare contractors in 13 states...
Law & Medicine
Update on informed consent
A shift toward a patient-oriented requisite standard of disclosure is changing the risk to physicians posed by informed consent.
News
Drug manufacturers delayed reporting serious unexpected adverse events
Key clinical point: Drug manufacturers delayed reporting about 10% of serious unexpected adverse events to the FDA. Major finding: Manufacturers...
Article
Value-based care poses new legal risks for doctors
The government’s push toward value-based care aims to fix a broken reimbursement system and improve quality of care for patients. But the new...