by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 5, 2009 | Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Finance, Medicare & Reimbursement
BUILD ON WHAT YOU’RE CURRENTLY DOING: 1. Add physician hours – add evening or weekend hours; start your office hours earlier and end hours later. 2. Reduce physician time off – decrease vacation or change weekly days off to 1/2 days off. 3. Set a...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 5, 2009 | Medicare & Reimbursement
Today I was fortunate enough to attend an outreach session designed to educate hospitals, physicians and other providers about Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC), specifically Connolly Consulting, the RAC for North Carolina. Although I cannot vouch that the information...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 19, 2009 | Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
Bill Moyers spoke with ex-insurance executive Wendell Potter recently, exploring why Potter left CIGNA and is now revealing insider information on how insurance companies maximize profits and influence lawmakers. Potter testified before Congress in June and writes...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 23, 2009 | Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
A typical standard operating procedure in many practices when adding a new physician is to phase in his/her schedule as s/he becomes credentialed by each payer. Traditionally, new physicians have been able to see Medicare patients immediately due to the Medicare...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 22, 2009 | Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement, Memes
The Medical Home, also called the Patient-Centered Medical Home, and the Personal Medical Home, is a movement to solve the problem of fragmented care (one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing) by having a primary care physician or practitioner act as the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 12, 2009 | Electronic Medical Records, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also called “The Stimulus Package” or “The Stimulus Bill.” Of the $850B in the bill, $51B is pegged for the health care industry and $19B of that will be used to incent medical practices...
