Arunab Mehta, MD, MEd, FHM
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Coding Corner: Prolonged Services Billing
May 1, 2025
A 66-year-old man with a history of hypertension and stage 4 chronic kidney disease was admitted to the hospital for acute pulmonary embolism and started on a heparin drip. It is day two of his...
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Coding Corner: Talk the Talk, Bill the Bill: Navigating Advance Care Discussion Billing
January 1, 2025
A 75-year-old woman with a previous medical history of high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, stage 4 chronic kidney disease, and lung cancer was admitted to the hospital with chest pain and...
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Coding Corner: Documenting Sepsis Accurately
September 3, 2024
A 64-year-old female is admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and started on IV antibiotics. You see her after she has been admitted and start some IV fluids for presumed sepsis. On day two, the...
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Billing for a Critically Ill Patient
July 1, 2024
A 64-year-old woman with a history of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia one day ago and is being started on intravenous (IV)...
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Challenging Anticoagulation Scenarios: How to Have Smooth Sailing through Choppy Waters
July 1, 2024
Keeping abreast of updates in anticoagulation guidelines is important for physicians to provide optimal patient care. Multiple changes to recommendations for anticoagulation have been made in the...
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Syncope: Things We Do for No Reason & Things We Do for Reason
July 1, 2024
Syncope is broadly classified into reflex-mediated (60% to 70%), orthostatic (10%), and cardiac (10% to 20%). Cerebrovascular causes were removed from American and European guidelines (or listed as a...
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Coding Corner: Billing by Time
June 3, 2024
A 66-year-old man with a history of hypertension was admitted to the hospital with chest pain and shortness of breath. He was found to have an acute pulmonary embolism on CT pulmonary angiography...