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 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 20, 2013 | Electronic Medical Records, Headlines
The HIMSS13 Conference in New Orleans, one of the biggest gatherings of Health Information Technology professionals of the year, was host to speakers, panel discussions, and one pretty large announcement from some of the big names in the electronic health record...
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....
