| | | | | | | | Osteoarthritis: A review of treatment options
| | | By
Sheila M. Seed, BS, PharmD, MPH
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Kaelen C. Dunican, PharmD
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Ann M. Lynch, PharmD
| | | Osteoarthritis is the leading cause of disability in the United States, especially among older adults. Treatment options primarily focus on alleviating the pain associated with the condition, but safety concerns over some of the traditional pharmacotherapeutic agents used in the management of osteoarthritis have led health care professionals to seek other options.
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| | | | Opinion: Treat hypertension in the elderly
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Fredrick T. Sherman
| | | Despite reams of data documenting the benefits of treatment of hypertension well into late life, many of our elderly patients never achieve their goal blood pressures because we fail to treat them adequately.
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| | | | | | | Medicare Q & A: If after surgery, during post-op, a surgeon asks me to see my patient because of abnormal lab results can I bill a consultation for that hospital day?
| | | By
Don Self
| | | If a surgeon is asking for your opinion, post-op, on a patient because of abnormal lab results, you can charge a consultation.
| | | Medicare Q & A: Can an emergency department visit be billed if a Medicare patient is triaged by a nurse but leaves before seeing a physician?
| | | By
Don Self
| | | In a physician clinic, billing is fee-for-service, but rural health clinics are paid from Medicare Part A on an encounter basis and the encounter has to be performed by a physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner.
| | | Medicare Q & A: If an EKG is taken at the hospital on a patient, but I don't read the results and do my interpretation until the next day, what date should be put on the interpretation
| | | By
Don Self
| | | Use the actual date of any service. If interpretation and technical portion are done on separate dates, you would charge on the separate dates.
| | | Medicare Q & A: If I perform a diagnostic test on a patient in my office and then send the test to a physician in another country for interpretation, can I still be paid for the technical portion of the test?
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Don Self
| | | You can be paid for the technical portion of a diagnostic test being sent to another country, but Medicare cannot pay for an interpretation provided outside the United States.
| | | Medicare Q & A: Because Medicare pays less for a B-12 service than the B-12 costs me, can I have a patient sign an Advanced Beneficiary Notice and then bill the patient separately?
| | | By
Don Self
| | | You are not allowed to bill a patient for a covered service that is bundled into another service even if the patient signs an Advanced Beneficiary Notice.
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