Year: 2019

3 Things Regarding CPT 99490 and the CCM Patient Agreement You Should Know To charge Medicare’s Chronic Care Management Services (CCM) repayment code, CPT 99490, you’re required to first have a legitimate patient agreement set up. There are a few basic parts to the patient understanding that you should incorporate to follow Medicare’s rules for […]

By EarthSky Voices in HUMAN WORLD | March 10, 2019 Help EarthSky keep going! Please donate what you can to our once-yearly crowd-funding campaign. By Steve Calandrillo, University of Washington In my research on daylight saving time (DST), I have found that Americans don’t like it when Congress messes with their clocks. In an effort to avoid the biannual clock switch in spring and […]

OLDER AMERICANS MONTH – Poster

Pushing of blood against the artery walls with each heartbeat is called blood pressure or Hypotension. When your blood pressure is below 90 mm Hg (systolic) or 60 mm Hg (diastolic) is generally considered as low blood pressure. Sometimes low blood pressure may be good but at times the person may feel dizzy and tired. […]

Health & Wellness for Seniors January is the perfect time to start a healthy lifestyle. Caregivers can help seniors maintain health with proper nutrition, exercise and lifestyle habits. January is the perfect time to start living a healthy lifestyle. Caregivers can play a large role in helping seniors maintain their health with proper nutrition, exercise […]

The old days of medicine are gone MICHAEL WEISS, MD | PHYSICIAN | JANUARY 17, 2019 In the last decade, specifically in the last five to six years, we have seen the gradual disempowerment of America’s physicians as well as their unfortunate patients. Starting with health management organizations, managed care, all the way to the insurance exchange, doctoring has […]