Followup on previous blog post (Mary Suhr: Coding Update 2025) -there is a new CPT code for the PENFS procedure in 2026: 64567. This procedure has FDA approval for children/adolescents (8-21 years) with functional abdominal pain associated with irritable bowel syndrome; in addition, it has an indication for functional dyspepsia.
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From NPR 9/11/25: TB is the #1 killer among infectious diseases. A new study says its toll could mount
An excerpt:
While it may seem like a disease from the past, this airborne illness kills more people than any other infectious disease worldwide, roughly 1.2 million a year. That number could increase dramatically because of the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign assistance, according to a new study…
As many as 10 million additional people could get TB, and 2.2 million could die by 2030 in high-burden countries under the worst-case funding scenario over the next five years, researchers report in the journal PLOS Global Public Health.
My take: I recently finished, Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green, which is a good read. So this article caught my attention. Even before the funding cuts, more effort was needed to stop the scourge of TB. Currently TB kills more than a million people per year; in some historic periods, it has killed as many as one in seven people.
Thanks to Anna Kelly for recommending the book to me.
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