As of January 1, 2026, the medical coding landscape has undergone its most significant transformation in years, with the AMA releasing 418 CPT changes and CMS finalizing updated ICD-10-CM guidelines ...

Often, a physician will decide to perform a subchondroplasty during arthroscopic joint surgery to treat subchondral bone defects (microfractures). A version of this article was first published April 1 ...

This Becker’s Podcast episode dives into updates to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set for 2025. Coding experts, Elaine Dunn and Jessica Edmiston from nimble solutions, a leading ...

Carolyn Neumann, CPC, Senior Manager, Coding & Coverage Access at Specialty Healthcare Advisers, discusses the challenges for coding spine surgery in ambulatory surgery centers and reimbursement ...

A Haglund’s deformity can be referred to by a number of different names such as bony enlargement, prominent bump, pump bump, or retrocalcaneal exostosis. Just as confusing is how an excision of the ...

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. , Oct. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Olympus Corporation, a global medical technology company committed to making people's lives healthier, safer, and more fulfilling, announced today ...

CMS has revised the July 2016 policy for same-day, same-eyelid blepharoplasty and ptosis surgery. The new policy, which went into effect Oct. 1, 2017, allows surgeons to bill patients for a cosmetic ...