by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 23, 2013 | A Career in Practice Management, Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance
A colleague of mine has been part of a well-known PM/EMR company’s software support team for 10 years. She often tries to steer people to me when she cannot solve a client’s problems with a software solution. Even though she was once a practice...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 17, 2013 | Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Finance
Dr. Maria Todd has been in healthcare since 1979 and has been the nation’s leading managed care trainer and consultant since 1989. She’s trained more than 70,000 healthcare professionals via more than 2500 road show seminars presented through...
by Abraham Whaley | May 1, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement, Quality
NOTE: CMS has just added additional presentations of the webinar below – please check the end of the article for added dates. MPW What is PQRS? The Physician Quality Reporting System (Physician Quality Reporting or PQRS) is a CMS reporting program...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 9, 2013 | Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Innovation
I get pitched new products and services every day and it is pretty rare that I hear of something that is startlingly new. Informedika is just that – it addresses an old, old problem for practices in a new way. Continue reading for a very interesting interview...
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 | 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...
