The main feature of civilization is the production, consumption, and accumulation of information in all branches of human activity. All human life, in one way or another, relates to the receipt, ...

Coding in sports medicine generally uses sports-specific coding systems rather than the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), because of superior applicability to the profile of injury and ...

1 Australian Centre for Research into Sports Injury and its Prevention (ACRISP), Monash Injury Research Institute (MIRI), Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 School of Public Health, ...

UnitedHealthcare is teaming up with the American Medical Association to grow its work using diagnostic codes for the social determinants of health. The two organizations will work together to launch ...

Many rare diseases don't have an ICD code, and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at NIH is exploring ways to best expand those codes to benefit rare disease patients and ...

Other payors, however, accept CPT 45378 (colonoscopy diagnostic) with a diagnosis code of V76.51 (colon screening for malignant neoplasm). However, if a polyp or lesion is found and removed by snare ...

Niru Ghoshal-Datta, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. Michael E. Chernew ([email protected]), Harvard University. J. Michael McWilliams, Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, ...