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Top 5 Remote Patient Monitoring Devices
Katherine Leonard Katherine Leonard

Top 5 Remote Patient Monitoring Devices

These Remote Patient Monitoring devices track and monitor a variety of chronic conditions to help Medicare patients receive personalized care from the comfort of their home.

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CPT Code 99453 - Remote Patient Monitoring Guide
Katherine Leonard Katherine Leonard

CPT Code 99453 - Remote Patient Monitoring Guide

CPT Code 99453 is the billing code for setting up patients with Remote Patient Monitoring devices. It reimburses providers for the time it takes to set-up devices and educate patients on how to use their new at home monitors.

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Witnessing and Voyeurism: Viewing Spectacular Performance in Paris is Burning
Katherine Leonard Katherine Leonard

Witnessing and Voyeurism: Viewing Spectacular Performance in Paris is Burning

In the opening interview of the documentary film Paris is Burning (1990), a camera sits between the Ivy-League educated, white director Jennie Livingston and legendary drag queen and ball circuit house mother, Pepper Labeija. “I remember my dad said, ‘You have three strikes against you in this world; every black man has two, that they’re black and they’re male,” Labeija recalls in his opening interview, “but you’re black and you’re male and you’re gay ... If you’re going to do this then you’re going to have to be stronger than you ever imagined.’”

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What is Remote Patient Monitoring?
Katherine Leonard Katherine Leonard

What is Remote Patient Monitoring?

Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) bridges the gap of effective communication, trust, and support between medical providers and Medicare patients.

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The Aesthetics of Climate Change
Katherine Leonard Katherine Leonard

The Aesthetics of Climate Change

Climate change is an evolving, growing, and compounding force that is often too difficult to fully comprehend in its entirety. Increased natural disasters, rising temperatures, and rapidly melting ice caps often occur in geographical and temporal locations that prevent humanity from fully grasping the world-altering changes that are unfolding around the world. This is where Danish and Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson steps in with his installation art piece Ice Watch.

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What Art Can Do for the Environment
Katherine Leonard Katherine Leonard

What Art Can Do for the Environment

We belong to a generation of children who were taught first hand to do our part to singularly alter the inevitable path of climate change.

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The Accordance of Will in Women and Marriage in Anna Karenina
Katherine Leonard Katherine Leonard

The Accordance of Will in Women and Marriage in Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy, author of Anna Karenina, offers a complex web of women who become entangled in the intricacies of individual will and marriage. Tolstoy asserts that marriage is a chief institution that is upheld by the trust and will of its participants; it cannot be fulfilled if primary will is absent.

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Brian Wilson and the Sounds of God
Katherine Leonard Katherine Leonard

Brian Wilson and the Sounds of God

The product of inspired spontaneity, “God Only Knows” — lauded by Paul McCartney as ‘the greatest song ever’ —sparked a restless and beautiful new version of pop music at a time when the word “God” was still barred from the industry.

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