Search results for "Practice Management"
Making sense of CMS’ new policy on consultation billing
CMS stopped recognizing CPT consultation codes and issued instructions to physicians only a few days before the new policy took effect. ACP's practice management staff digest what internists need to know to stay atop of billing for 2009, documentation, the “3-year rule” and cross-walks for services previously billed as consultations.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/02/practice.htm
1 Feb 2010
United and Aetna to continue paying consultation codes
The February issue of ACP Internist is online and coming to your mailbox
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/02/02/7.htm
2 Feb 2010
PERSPECTIVES 4 ACPINTERNIST Major guidelines on hypertension released last ...
Turn to page 8 toread more about this important aspect of practice management. ... Chestradiograph is normal. Which of the following is the mostappropriate initial management of thispatient?
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/04/acpi-201404-puzzle_t1.pdf
25 Mar 2014
Chronic care management codes worthwhile if done right
To ensure proper billing of the chronic care management codes, it is important that clinical staff or clinicians keep a record of time spent with participating patients and that the care coordination is appropriately documented and clinically necessary.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/06/tips.htm
1 Jun 2017
Discussing death, dying, and advance care planning
Clinicians and their teams may want to identify which patients and families to prioritize for advance care planning initiatives.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/09/discussing-death-dying-and-advance-care-planning.htm
1 Sep 2017
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT As always, the Medicare program hassome changes ...
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT. As always, the Medicare program hassome changes for the new year. ... General practice 2%. Hematology/ 2%oncologyInfectious diseases 1%. Nephrology 0%. Pulmonary disease 1%.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/01/acpi-201201-coding_t3.pdf
19 Dec 2011
New rule to simplify electronic payment transactions
The Department of Health and Human Services has released a new rule meant to facilitate the ability of physician practices to receive claim payments electronically and reduce the burden and cost faced by practices in reconciling payments from their different payers.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/08/21/10.htm
21 Aug 2012
Managing risk: a little attention equals a lot of prevention
Things to do in DC while you're at Internal Medicine 2008.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/04/nine.htm
1 Apr 2008
The ever-expanding list of reasons for a doctor's note
Yul Ejnes, MD, MACP, continues his monthly column at KevinMD.com in a post about the evolution of the requests for a doctor's note.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/05/17/6.htm
17 May 2016
Assess your ability to comply with version 5010 requirements
The pressure is on to switch to version 5010, and the process will require identifying changes, testing transactions and minimizing disruptions.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/06/coding.htm
1 Jun 2011