Too many stars are bad for you

Are you too young?

At a time when the value of performing aortic valve replacement surgery on elderly patients with aortic stenosis (AS) was being questioned, we reported our findings of a formal decision analysis entitled “You’re Never Too Old” (1) that revealed survival benefit of surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) in symptomatic elderly AS patients. SAVR is currently widely accepted as a treatment of oth...

Can you ever collect too many oocytes?

STUDY QUESTION Does the chance of pregnancy keep improving with increasing number of oocytes, or can you collect too many? SUMMARY ANSWER Clinical pregnancy (CP) and live birth (LB) rates per embryo transfer varied from 10.2 and 9.2% following one oocyte collected to 37.7 and 31.3% when >16 oocytes were collected. Regression modelling indicated success rates increased or at least stayed the s...

too many students’ congresses, are they necessary and useful?

Are you undercoding too much?

Dr. Jensen is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology. In addition to being a practicing nephrologist with Gulf Coast Kidney Associates, Sarasota, Fla, he is a certified professional coder (CPC) and works as a physician reimbursement consultant. He offers remote and onsite workshops and seminars designed to teach physicians how to apply the evaluation and management guidelines in da...

Medicare bad debts are you losing money?

Providers should adopt strategies to make sure that both their claimed and not yet claimed Medicare bad debts will be reimbursed. For periods going forward, providers that are not protected by the bad debt moratorium should make sure they have a bad debt policy in place that complies with CMS's current policies.