Saturday, August 22, 2026

Blog 5 of 5: AI Rewrites My Human Blog #3 (Super-Providers)

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In this series of 5 blogs, Blog 3 (national and super-provider utilization) was written by Quinn by hand.  Here is  Blog 3 , rewritten from...

Blog 4 of 5; We Discover the Source of the CMS 88305 Data: Mesta et al., June 2026!

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50-word summary CMS’s July 2026 CY2027 Physician Fee Schedule proposal reproduced striking Maryland data suggesting CPT 88305 may be overva...
Friday, August 21, 2026

88305: Blog 3 of 5: National and Busy-Individual Usage for 88305 in Medicare Part B

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In summer rulemaking, CMS proposed surgical biopsy billion-dollar-code 88305 as a mispriced code.  Blog #1 here .    I also had Chat GPT res...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

FDA Approves De Novo Software that Makes Diagnosis on Brain MRI: NeuroPacs

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August 7, we published a blog on software diagnosis in radiology and asked how fast it might come to pathology.    Here .  And we've alr...

88305: Blog 2 of 5: The Ancient History of Surg Path Coding (88305 1960s?)

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Here's a challenge I gave to Chat GPT 5.6.  What's the origin of the coding system for surgical pathology - biopsies 88305, etc.   C...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

88305: Blog 1 of 5: CMS Proposes Review of Code 88305. Chat GPT Writes White Paper Report.

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 In July, when CMS released the proposed policies for physician fee schedule aka Part B, it included a proposal to review the valuation of ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Chat GPT Reviews History of McDermott Plus Consulting - After News from Politico

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We're waiting for confirmation of a news item in Politico that McDermott Plus is closing in August 2026. While we wait, Chat GPT ran a i...