Valley Medical Center

Commercial Payors More Likely to Reimburse Unlisted Hip Arthroscopy Procedures Compared With Managed Care but With Similar Overall Dollar Amount

Purpose To compare the reimbursement practices of public managed care (MC) insurance versus private commercial insurance (COM) for hip arthroscopy using the current procedural terminology (CPT) code 29999. Methods The CPT codes and corresponding reimbursements of hip arthroscopie...

Circulating microRNAs: a new era in early detection of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) — a systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: The chances of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) being diagnosed at an early stage are very low, and this leads to a poor prognosis. The presence of circulating miRNAs (miRNAs) in blood or saliva is now a potential non-invasive diagnostic biomarker, although the dia...