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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

This blog covers everything you need to know—from appointment types and coding to telehealth options and what really happens during your time with the provider. For a new patient visit , both ICD-10 (diagnosis) and CPT (procedure) codes are assigned. What information should you bring? What Is a Primary Care Visit? Absolutely.

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Is my Software a Medical Device? Use the Digital Health Policy Navigator

FDA Law Blog

This blog post describes the medical device determination process and a way of assessing software functions to determine if your software product is subject to FDA regulations. or other similar or related article” which is “intended for use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions.” Your product may be a device.

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A Long Time Coming: DEA Regs Finally Authorize Schedule II Prescription Partial Fills

FDA Law Blog

In addition, a pharmacist could partially fill a schedule II prescription issued to patients in a Long Term Care Facility or who have a terminal medical illness diagnosis. For electronic prescriptions, the quantity dispensed, date dispensed, and the dispenser must be linked to each electronic prescription record. . § 1306.13(a).

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Working Out – Dan Minter

The Clinical Problem Solvers

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably found yourself asking that question after listening to a discussant on the podcast arrive at some unexpected diagnosis, only to have the biopsy or lab test prove them right. “How do they do it?!!”

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

Prescriptions Containing No Diagnosis or Intended Use Controlled substance prescriptions issued with a non-specific diagnosis or no diagnosis. Complaint ¶ 60. Complaint ¶ 61.

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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FDA Updates the Regulatory Definitions of Certain Software Types for Consistency with 21st Century Cures Act Exclusions

FDA Law Blog

Remove non-device software functions intended for storing and retrieving, so that a medical image storage device is a hardware device that provides electronic storage and retrieval functions for medical images. Certain types of clinical decision-support software. Medical Image Storage Device. Medical Image Communications Device. 892.2050.