"Stroke codes are the hottest of messes." That's how one of my emergency medicine colleagues put it to me recently. And you know what? She's probably right. The problem is that a ton of things have to ...

Physicians haven’t properly coded for stroke patients who transferred from traditional Medicare to Medicare Advantage, leading to inflated payments to Medicare Advantage organizations, according to a ...

It’s important to ensure your coders are coding stroke correctly. There are three types of stroke you can add: Accurate choice of code is important because (with a couple of exceptions) only the ...

doctor with pager The adjusted analysis also demonstrated that the code stroke system was associated with a decreased risk for post-stroke epilepsy within 5 years of stroke. The code stroke system, ...

Editor's note: A healthy, 30-year-old male nurse working in the stroke unit at JFK Medical Center in Edison had a stroke and called his own code. Along with a team of JFK surgeons, medical physicians, ...