by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 24, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Headlines, Innovation, Physician Relations, Practice Marketing
Most readers know that I have a special interest in helping physician practices survive and thrive, and have been writing recently about different models of care that physicians are adopting to make private practice financially viable. Here’s an interview with...
by Abraham Whaley | Mar 18, 2013 | Day-to-Day Operations, Headlines
Meaningful Use (MU) Meaningful Use is the phrase used in the 2009 HITECH Act to describe the standard providers must achieve to receive incentive payments for purchasing and implementing an EHR system. The term meaningful use combines clinical use of the EHR (i.e....
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 12, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Headlines
What is Medicaid? Medicaid provides health and long-term care financial assistance for certain groups of people with limited income. Medicaid was enacted under title XIX of the Social Security Act as a joint program between the Federal government and all 50...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 11, 2013 | Day-to-Day Operations, Headlines
Welcome to our guide to Healthcare Buzzwords! ACO An acronym for “Accountable Care Organization”, an ACO is a model of healthcare delivery in which a group of healthcare providers agree to accept payment for their services based on the aggregated health...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 10, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Medical Coding Education, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
Effective January 1, 2013, Medicare and other payers will pay for two new CPT codes (99495 and 99496) that are used to report physician or qualifying non-physician practitioner transitional care management (TCM) service for patients, following a discharge from a:...
by Abraham Whaley | Mar 5, 2013 | A Career in Practice Management, Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Leadership, Medical Coding Education, Medicare & Reimbursement
NOTE: this series will be repeated in the near future – click on the Webinars tab above for the latest information. “We’ll start with the money.” We say that a lot in client meetings at Manage My Practice. Whatever issues might exist in the...