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Historically, a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 40 has been defined as “morbid” or “extreme” obesity. The World Health Organization […]

We have learned much about COVID-19 since the pandemic began a year ago. We have new and better treatments, better […]

The CMS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report in July 2020 claiming that hospitals over-billed Medicare approximately $1 […]

According to the CDC, 4.5 million Americans have chronic liver disease and almost 48,000 die from it each year. From […]

By Cynthia Tang, RHIA, CCS, CRC From the very beginning, my business partner, Dr. Richard Pinson, and I have taught […]

In probably the most important change to the FY2021 ICD-10-CM guidelines, the reporting of Glasgow Coma Scale codes has been […]

By now all of us should be familiar with the terminology and coding for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction […]

Pancytopenia is a simultaneous deficiency of three blood cell lineages: red blood cells, platelets, and neutrophils. Its clinical significance is […]

A recent “Opinion” article by three distinguished professors from Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis titled “Who Owns Sepsis?” […]

For the 2020 ICD-10-CM, new codes were created to capture antibiotic resistance in clinical settings. The intent is to identify […]

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