Recently, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Medical Association of Georgia (MAG) came out swinging against an insurer, Anthem. The pair of associations filed lawsuit against Anthem for its recently-implemented policy of denying medical...Read More »
Q:Our neurologist often documents encephalopathy for many of our patients. If an elderly patient came in with altered mental status (AMS), delirium, and has baseline dementia, can we code encephalopathy? What if the physician...Read More »
Because coroners and medical examiners did not specify the drugs contributing to death, potentially 70,000 opioid-related overdose deaths from 1999-2015 were excluded from national figures.Read More »
