by Abraham Whaley | Apr 7, 2013 | Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records
A new report suggests that 2013 may be the year of the great electronic medical records (EMR) vendor switch given that many EMRs are falling short of providers’ expectations. To come to that conclusion, Black Book Rankings polled roughly 17,000 active EMR...
by Abraham Whaley | Apr 3, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Headlines
Staying with the theme of practice models for independent physicians, here’s an interview with Samir Qamar, MD of MedLion. Mary Pat: You are the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MedLion, as well as a practicing Family Physician....
by Abraham Whaley | Apr 2, 2013 | Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Headlines, Innovation
At Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, doctors are saving time and sharing ideas using Box, a file-sharing and collaboration software that lets providers browse available medical documents and communicate with each other about...
by Abraham Whaley | Mar 31, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
This is no April Fool’s Joke for medical practices and providers: starting Monday, April 1st, we will face a 2% cut in reimbursement for services due to the “sequester.” The sequester is the other half of the “fiscal cliff” that we...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 27, 2013 | A Career in Practice Management, Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
There’s a lot of talk today about how physicians (and other care entities) are paid. This slide deck discusses how the system used predominantly today (RBRVS) to pay physicians came to be and how Medicare and other payers calculate a payment. Download this Slide...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 26, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance
If you could improve your patient collections from $600 a week to $6000 a week, would you do it? Of course you would! These numbers are from a Manage My Practice client who is collecting between $2500 – $3000 per day in a solo primary care physician practice...
