This brings up some very good questions, how do you “code” treatments that come under the clinical trial area, or those not yet FDA approved. Most labs have been using genetic based tests for a while now and as it states here, there is no way to determine which is a genetic test and which uses...
The Health Blog at the Wall Street Journal picks up on some influential health bloggers here and investigates nice credit to the bloggers ( KevinMD and Dr. Secretwave101 ) too! This somewhat shows how complicated the billing process is today for healthcare. There are thousands of codes used...