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CMS wants better care at a lower cost. That doesn’t sound like the easiest task, but they’ve offered a game plan for cardiac care that shows how one could lead to the other. The idea is that if hospitals work together with physicians and other providers (like SNFs), then the result will be heart attack and bypass patients experiencing fewer costly complications, lower rates of hospital readmission, and faster recovery times, too. To Read full article visit here  

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Can you think of a diagnostic test more common than an X-ray? Okay, hemoglobin and hematocrit may top X-rays in frequency of ordering, but you have to admit that as a general diagnostic tool, clinicians find a look inside a patient to be an invaluable assist. Chest X-rays are among the most popular and useful baseline imaging studies around, and fortunately plain-image (formerly called plain film — more on this in a minute) chest X-ray CPT® codes were unchanged for 2016. But vertebrae also show up on chest X-rays, though any thoracic or cervical abnormalities seen on chest X-ray imaging studies would be incidental, sparking the need for spinal X-rays to be performed.