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The 2010 proposed rule for the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) includes only minimal changes to the MS-DRG system from a coding and reporting standpoint but is likely to have a significant impact on hospital reimbursement, according to Deborah Hale, CCS, president of Administrative Consultant Services LLC, a health care consulting firm based in Shawnee, OK.
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A significant portion of patients with irritable bowel syndrome will test positive for celiac disease.
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Correlation of 6 different immunochemical qualitative fecal occult blood tests with colonoscopy findings showed wide variation in diagnostic performance.
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Weight management issues continue to be problematic for persons with type 2 diabetes.
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The ECG above was obtained from a 62-year-old man with hypertension who was being seen in the office. How would you interpret this tracing if he had told you of some chest discomfort that he felt for the first time earlier that morning?
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Advancing age was inversely related to the frequency of colorectal cancer screening, but even severe comorbidity did not seem to proportionally decrease colorectal cancer screening.
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The FDA has approved a new drug combination for acute, uncomplicated malaria infection.
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NSAIDs in the elderly; managing GI and CVD risk with NSAIDs; low-dose naltrexone and fibromyalgia; treating glucocorticoid-induced bone loss; FDA Actions.
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The Mayo Clinic Cohort Study of Oophorectomy and Aging included 1274 premenopausal women with unilateral oophorectomy (followed for a median of 29.5 years) and 1091 premenopausal women with bilateral oophorectomy (followed for a median of 25 years) who had surgery from 1950 through 1987, compared with 2383 matched women from the same population of women who had not undergone oophorectomy.
