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The acronym HCPCS originally stood for HCFA Common Procedure Coding System, a medical billing process used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Prior to 2001, CMS was known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). HCPCS was established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing the specific ...
Medical classification. A medical classification is used to transform descriptions of medical diagnoses or procedures into standardized statistical code in a process known as clinical coding. Diagnosis classifications list diagnosis codes, which are used to track diseases and other health conditions, inclusive of chronic diseases such as ...
The Advanced Diabetes Management Certification (BC-ADM) is a certification offered by the American Association of Diabetes Educators. [1]Health care professionals seeking the BC-ADM credential must hold a current, active registered nurse (advanced practice registered nurse, clinical nurse specialist), physician, physician assistant, registered dietitian or pharmacist license in a state or ...
Diabetes mellitus cases due to a known defect are classified separately. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes mellitus accounting for 95% of diabetes. [2] Many people with type 2 diabetes have evidence of prediabetes (impaired fasting glucose and/or impaired glucose tolerance) before meeting the criteria for type 2 diabetes. [55]
The International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) was an adaptation created by the US National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and used in assigning diagnostic and procedure codes associated with inpatient, outpatient, and physician office utilization in the United States. The ICD-9-CM is based on the ICD-9 but ...
The Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (formerly American Association of Diabetes Educators, or AADE) is a multidisciplinary membership organization for healthcare professionals who specialize in teaching patients about diabetes and how to self-manage the disease. ADCES was founded in 1973 as the American Association of ...
AAPC (healthcare) The AAPC, previously known by the full title of the American Academy of Professional Coders, [4] is a professional association for people working in specific areas of administration within healthcare businesses in the United States. [5] AAPC is one of a number of providers who offer services such as certification and training ...
Ambulatory glucose profile ( AGP) is a single-page, standardized report for interpreting a patient's daily glucose and insulin patterns. AGP provides both graphic and quantitative characterizations of daily glucose patterns. First developed by Drs. Roger Mazze and David Rodbard, [ 1] with colleagues at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in ...