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The healthcare website that had its humble beginnings as a digital brochure has morphed into one of the most important resources a practice has. Your website must be able to: attract and capture new patients, retain and engage existing patients, provide a platform for...
UPDATE: CMS has announced a second window for applying for the 2013 hardship exemption from 11/1/2012 through 1/31/2013. Click Here for more info. UPDATE: CMS has released information for applying for the 2013 hardship exemption. Check out our "Medicare This Week"...
The new winner of my ongoing competition for the CMS Employee Speaker contest is Dr. Daniel Duvall, Medical Officer, Hospital and Ambulatory Policy Group Center for Medicare! During a recent ICD-10 call, Dr. Duvall spoke clearly, was easy to understand and kept...
Dr. Peter Polack has a new 8 minute podcast on "Scanning Paper Records Into Your EMR System: Setting Up An Action Plan" with yours truly. We discuss some tips and best practices including: The importance of ‘storyboarding’ your strategy for paper chart conversion How...
How does a medical practice meet the patients' healthcare needs while operating a highly-regulated business on less income? Start by examining one of the most expensive processes in the practice - billing. Billing requires skilled employees, sophisticated technology,...
The east coast has experienced one of the worst hurricanes in recent history, with tremendous damage and loss of life. Some of the most significant lessons can be learned by observing leadership during extremely difficult times. The following are several observations...
CMS announced today that four additional significant hardship exemptions will allow physicians to be exempt from the 2012 Medicare payment reduction of 1%. Exemptions will be granted to: Eligible professionals who register to participate in the Medicare or...
As we have previously reported, the Department of Labor is taking important steps in the fight against excessive fees in the retirement plan space. Some service providers in the retirement plan industry are opposed to these regulations, claiming they are unnecessarily...
Last week the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new initiative to help improve care for patients while they are in the hospital and after they are discharged. Doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers can now apply to participate...
In a traditional healthcare setting, the revenue cycle begins with the insurance companies who pay the majority of the bill. There are multitudes of payers and each payer can have many plans. How can a healthcare organization catalog this information, keep this...
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