August 28, 2008
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- Honest / Dishonest
- I NEED REFERENCES OF DELIMED MEDIZINTECHNIK
- Frederick Benson and C.M.B. Air Cargo Scam
- Need references ASAP on Royi Goldman
- Beware of Ricky Rosas / Universal Medical Engineering Services
- Shaun Kurtz & Miracle Medi Systems Inc.
- Service Technicians
- problem with US HDI 3000
- Service Manual for the LUNAR DPX-IQ sw4.7E.
- Re: Konica Laser Imager Li-7 -"image problem"
- Service manual for Valleylab Force EZ
- Schemes for Kodak DryView 8100 and 8150
- Charity
- UNICEF Canada: Gifts that Give Back for the Holidays
- Re: I have a mammography system to donate to a 501c3
- Sleepdiagnostic equipment needed
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Letter From the Editor
Code Blues
Public and private insurance regulations can make healthcare providers feel more like administrators than clinicians. You need to know who pays for what before you can recommend treatment in many cases, leading to a departure from healing as job one and resulting in differential treatment.
So the news that Medicare is proposing new payment codes is hitting doctors' desks with the thud of a diagnostic coding manual. AMA hates the idea calling it, "a massive administrative undertaking" that increases the current 17,000 codes ten times over.
But an industry group, AdvaMed, supports the newly refined system "to better identify and describe new medical procedures and technologies." If your procedure, or the diagnosis it addresses, receives its own insurance code number, that's a sort of validation that can put you on the map. At the same time, the map is getting impossibly busy.
One thing is certain: The coding situation is another catalyst for electronic health records since software upgrades will be the only way to know the codes.
See you next week!
Barbara Kram, Editor
People & Companies
- John Bardis Attends Beijing Olympics as Team Leader of U.S. Greco-Roman Wrestling Team
- CEO of MedAssets is in Beijing as a participant in the games.
- Adam Medical Survives and Thrives
- DOTmed Certified Bernard Glas of DOTmed 100 Company Adam Medical Sales Inc., is not putting all his eggs in one basket.
- Michael Falco Guides Compass Medical in the Right Direction
- Background in business and finance helps find the right solutions for imaging equipment clientele.
- Medegen Grows Product Distribution Via Co-Marketing Agreement With Bard
- MaxPlus® Clear™ Needleless Access Device now available in Bard Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) Kits.
- iCRco Digital Radiography Systems Chosen as Provider to U.S. Military
- After a rigorous selection process, the U.S. Army has chosen iCRco, a California-based provider of digital x-ray imaging solutions, as its provider for troops injured in battle.
- NovaRad Secures Contracts With Imaging Centers
- NovaRad has added four U.S. imaging centers to its roster of NovaPACS users.
- Misonix, Inc. Enters Two Year Agreement With North Med
- Misonix, Inc., a developer of minimally invasive ultrasonic medical device technology used in Europe has entered into a distribution agreement with privately-held North Med, based near Prague in the Czech Republic.
- Baxter Healthcare Corporation Announces Licensing Agreement With Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
- Baxter Healthcare Corporation announced a licensing agreement with Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Ltd, a division of Innocoll, Inc., granting Baxter exclusive rights to market and distribute the company's gentamicin surgical implant in the United States.
- Yoshiaki Fujimori Named Chairman, President and CEO of GE Japan
- This position is in addition to his current role of leading GE Money Asia.
- In-Room Computers and Wall-Mounted WorkStations Help Improve Efficiency, Care
- Independence, Missouri's Centerpoint Medical Center, a Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) facility, has completed the installation of more than 400 Proximity WorkStations.
- CONMED Linvatec's Bio Mini-Revo Suture Anchor Receives FDA Clearance
- Anchor for use in arthroscopic hip repair.
