by Michael Parson | Feb 5, 2016 | ICD-10
“The transition from ICD9s to ICD10s is going to be disastrous for healthcare!” This was the statement heard so often for so long, that everyone in the industry was terrified about the transition from ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes and overjoyed every time a...
by Michael Parson | Feb 5, 2016 | CLIA-Waived
Medical Supplies & Equipment Medical supplies are vital instruments that help you administer the tests account for all of the findings. The next section shows some widely used equipment for POL (Physician Office Lab) testing. BC-3200 Auto Hematology Analyzer is...
by Michael Parson | Feb 4, 2016 | ICD-10
ICD-10 went into effect in the United States on October 1, 2015. The primary difference from ICD-9 is the amount of specificity and granularity of conditions or situations which were given a code. In total, there are some 70,000 codes, which is up 500% from ICD-9...
by Michael Parson | Feb 4, 2016 | CLIA-Waived
Proper (CLIA) Waived Lab Testing & Protocols CLIA- Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments is to ensure timeliness, accurate, and reliability in patient testing. This act falls under strict, high quality standards, wherever the tests were performed. This...
by Michael Parson | Jan 28, 2016 | Pharmacogenomics
Since 2007, when the FDA acknowledged that a blood-thinning drug’s effectiveness (or lack of) could be determined by how a person’s unique genetic structure responded to dosage, the medical field has been questioning its trial-by-error methodology....
