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 ...
CPT 20936 is for a morcellized autograft used in spine procedures which are obtained “through the same incision,” such as from disc material removed during a discectomy. If a morcellized autograft is ...
In this procedure, a titanium device is inserted into the posterior spine to prevent the patient from bending too far backward (hyper-extending the spine) at the area where the stenosis is present in ...
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 ...
ROSELAND, N.J., May 10, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Milestone Scientific Inc. (NYSE: MLSS), a leading developer of computerized drug delivery instruments that provide painless and precise injections, as ...
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 ...
2026 rates for physician offices, home visits, long-term care, and hospitals are in line with the proposed rule and remain materially unchanged from 2025 EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Nov. 03, 2025 (GLOBE ...
Criteria used by payers to determine how to code and support the use of various genomic profiling assays used in oncology. Bruce Feinberg, DO: Before we get to billing, whether it was 50, 150, or 500 ...