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  2. Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System - Wikipedia

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    The use of Level III codes was discontinued on December 31, 2003, in order to adhere to consistent coding standards. [3]: 2 Level III codes were different from the modern CPT Category III codes, which were introduced in 2001 to code emerging technology. [4]

  3. Medical billing - Wikipedia

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    For every patient encounter, providers must record both ICD codes to identify the diagnosis and CPT codes to document the treatment. Given the vast number of codes—approximately 70,000 for ICD and over 10,000 for CPT—using advanced medical billing software is recommended to streamline the coding process, reduce errors, and ensure compliance ...

  4. Current Procedural Terminology - Wikipedia

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    The CPT code revisions in 2013 were part of a periodic five-year review of codes. Some psychotherapy codes changed numbers, for example 90806 changed to 90834 for individual psychotherapy of a similar duration. Add-on codes were created for the complexity of communication about procedures.

  5. Tear break-up time - Wikipedia

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    Due to the fluorescein, the tear film will appear green in color. [5] A black spot indicating the dry area will appear a few seconds after each blink. TBUT is the time interval between the last blink and appearance of the first randomly-distributed dry spot. [2] If the patient blinks before 10 seconds have elapsed, the test must be restarted.

  6. HCPCS Level 2 - Wikipedia

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    There are three important HCPCS Level 2 [4] codes for digital mammograms that often used (G0202, G0204 and G0206). The original mammogram codes (film based mammograms) are CPT codes (77055, 77056, and 77057), so it would be easy to overlook the increasingly used digital mammogram codes that remain as HCPCS Level 2 codes if one did not know they ...

  7. Fluorescent glucose biosensor - Wikipedia

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    Its affinity for glucose is K= 0.2 μM, [58] which is much lower than the pathophysiological range of glucose found in diabetes (1.7-33 mM). [59] As a consequence, several studies have been done to lower the affinity of Ggbp, which otherwise would result in near-saturation of Ggbp throughout the pathophysiological glucose concentrations.

  8. Israel investigating after Hamas releases photos purportedly ...

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    Israel says it is investigating after Hamas released photos purportedly showing the body of a female hostage in Gaza. Speaking during his weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin ...

  9. Comprehensive metabolic panel - Wikipedia

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    The comprehensive metabolic panel, or chemical screen (CMP; CPT code 80053), is a panel of 14 blood tests that serves as an initial broad medical screening tool. The CMP provides a rough check of kidney function, liver function, diabetic and parathyroid status, and electrolyte and fluid balance, but this type of screening has its limitations.