As healthcare becomes more mobile, there are increasing concerns with device security, particularly when physicians and other healthcare professionals use their personal mobile devices to do their work and to communicate with patients.
Q: A lung cancer patient presents to the infusion clinic to receive chemotherapy treatments. The patient receives a Carboplatin infusion, a Gezmar infusion, and an Anzemet intravenous push. Which CPT codes would be used to report these services?
Leaving the hospital can be a difficult transition for older patients with chronic diseases. The Community Aging in Place—Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) intervention was created: to help remove barriers at home that stand between people and better health.
The now-defunct Georgia-based company responsible for a 2016 security lapse that allowed the public to view online the patient records of more than 1,650 individuals treated by doctors with Virtua Medical Group has reached a $200,000 settlement with the state of New Jersey.
This week's note from the instructor demonstrates how CY 2019 updates will affect premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance amounts for Medicare beneficiaries.
