The following article is written by Jen Cohrs CPC, CPMA, CGIC, member of AAPC. Colonoscopy coding is an art. There are many intricacies involved with the correct way to code a screening colonoscopy.

My five- and seven-year-old constantly fight over who gets the iPad first. We have one, and they get to use it in tiny doses, usually when I'm at my wit's end. Their favorite app? ScratchJr, MIT's ...

That is, they will pay for a screening if that was what the patient came in for, even if a polyp is found. For this reason, it is vital to assign both diagnosis codes to the claim. How to deal with ...

CMS Updates APC Reimbursement Codes - Another positive step in helping to improve patient outcomes with near-infrared spectroscopy technology. This is another positive step in our efforts to help ...

First came Generation X. Then the Millennials. And if you have kids under 10, you already know what they're going to be called: the Touchscreen Generation. For these kids, who learned to walk and talk ...

Mental retardation is defined as a disability characterized by “significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behaviour as expressed in conceptual, social and practical ...