by Mary Pat Whaley | May 4, 2015 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Headlines, ICD-10
There is a lot of advice out there on making the transition to ICD-10. Your medical practice may already have taken some of this advice and you are well on the way to readiness for I-10. But if you’ve not done anything yet for the transition, this article is for...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 20, 2015 | Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
Hospital Compare is a consumer-oriented website that provides information on how well hospitals provide care to their patients. It allows consumers to select multiple hospitals and directly compare performance measure information related to heart attack, heart...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 15, 2015 | Day-to-Day Operations, Human Resources, Manage My Practice Classics
Staffing your medical practice can be a daily balancing act. There’s no simple formula for staffing that one can apply to every practice because each specialty and each situation requires something different. It is very important to right-size your staffing....
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 13, 2015 | Compliance, Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
Last week, CMS published a new proposed rule for Meaningful (MU). This rule strives to “…align Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 1 and Stage 2 objectives and measures with the long-term proposals for Stage...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Feb 1, 2015 | Headlines
You may or may not have noticed that the Manage My Practice website has been, well, gone during the month of January. We are still not sure what exactly happened – it could have been hacked, but we’re not sure who might have done such a dastardly deed. The...