by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 19, 2012 | Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement, Medicare This Week
This Week’s Medicare News for Medical Practice Managers Vice Chair Gingrey (R-GA) “Confident” of SGR Fix Passing in Lame Duck Congress Session (jump to story) CMS Releases Stage 2 Meaningful Use Specification Sheets with Details on Each Measure ...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 19, 2011 | Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
Everyone knows what a mess we’ve had in the past when CMS has had to pay according to the SGR, then it was reversed at the last minute and CMS had to pay additional amounts on services they had considered paid in full – a headache no matter how good your...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 4, 2011 | Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
I haven’t written much about the impending 29% Medicare physician payment cut. This threatened cut has happened every year for the past 10 years. Every year at the last second, Washington is convinced that if cuts take place, physicians really will stop seeing...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 15, 2010 | Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
Please call the AMA Grassroots Hotline, and have everyone in your office/department/building/campus call the Hotline on Wednesday, November 17th (White Coat Wednesday) and every day thereafter until November 30th to insist that Congress vote for the 13-month patch to...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 24, 2010 | A Career in Practice Management, Day-to-Day Operations
All available appointments are full. All staff showed up for their shifts. No one burns toast in the toaster oven and sets off the fire alarm. None of the staff show up to work wearing flip-flops or pink underwear beneath their white scrubs. All patients have been...
