By: Brian Anderson | 2012-05-23 | Beauty Given the amount of wear and tear that we go through its surprising that it has been shown that the majority of individuals with degenerative disc disease (DDD) do not have any pain. read more
By: James Smith | 2010-10-18 | Health & Fitness ICD-9 Codes: If you don't know where to look for the right ICD-9 Code for Hodgkin's Lymphoma, you could easily neglect to add the fifth digit this code range requires. read more
By: jamesarticle | 2011-10-21 | Health & Fitness This time ICD-9 2012 has come up with six new codes for thalassemia: 282.40, 282.43, 282.44, 282.45, 282.46, and 282.47. read more
By: jamesarticle | 2011-09-28 | Health & Fitness Since Hypertension (HTN) is on the rise in the US, it's essential that your HTN coding is top-quality. Or else many of your claims will meet denials. read more
By: Robert D Hawkins | 2010-03-30 | Pets Have you noticed your horse not moving as well as they have in the past? Or maybe, they have that look of pain in their eyes that doesn't seem to be linked to any noticeable physical condition. These are subtle signs of osteoarthritis in horses. read more
By: jamesarticle | 2012-02-21 | Health & Fitness A diagnosis of gout may appear simple enough to code, however a quick glance at your ICD-9 choices demonstrates more than 10 feasible options. read more
By: Clivir Team | 2010-11-03 | Pets Regardless of what tasks your horse performs, from racing to the casual jaunt around the farm, its joints end up getting a lot of wear and tear. It makes sense since horses are not small or light weight animals, their joints have to hold up a lot of their weight. Without proper care, your horse's joints will wear out overtime or are more prone to experience trauma. read more
By: Gaugan | 2012-03-12 | Medicine In total, there are 32 new V codes that appear in ICD-9 2010. These new codes cover several areas, including personal history of disease and health supervision of newborns. Here are some highlights read more
By: James Smith | 2010-10-18 | Health & Fitness CMS has confirmed a code set freeze should help when trying to get acqainted with ICD-10 coding. read more
By: jamesarticle | 2011-09-15 | Health & Fitness This time, proposed list of ICD-9 codes is fairly short; but even then quite a few of them apply to your oncology and hematology claims. Here's what you need to watch out for: read more
By: Adrian Joele | 2010-09-07 | Supplements Healthy living means:keeping a balanced, healthy diet, avoiding smoking, excessive use of alcohol and toxic chemicals,taking regular exercise and supplementing our diet with high quality nutritional supplements. Hundreds of scientific studies have proved that nutritional supplements can significantly reduce the risk of degenerative diseases. read more
By: jamesarticle | 2011-10-10 | Health & Fitness Under ICD 9 codes 2011, you used to report an acute, chronic, or NOS pneumothorax with 512.8, however ICD-9 2012 revises 512.8 and turns into a range of codes. read more