Caring for Self-Pay Patients Healthcare is expensive and for millions of Americans, it’s a struggle to afford health insurance. While the Affordable Care Act has made progress in providing lower-cost health insurance to the American people, there are still some who are uninsured. Some cannot afford plans on the marketplace,…
What are Chronic Care Management Services? Chronic care management services refer to the chronic care services provided by medical professionals to Medicare beneficiaries with at least two chronic conditions. A disease or condition is chronic if it lasts a year or more, or requires ongoing medical attention, or limits daily…
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, also known as MACRA, is on the minds of physicians and practice managers from coast to coast. As with any new ruling from CMS, the challenge is to fully understand the changes to the law and what it means for your…
GE Healthcare’s Centricity Practice Solution, like all business-essential software, helps remove complexity from tasks that would otherwise be unmanageable. For one, the clinic’s EHR software must assist physicians and medical coders in the clinic with the correct choice of ICD-10 codes. With more than 68,000 options in the International Classification…
Meeting the various reporting and measurement standards imposed by CMS is no cakewalk. On one hand, clinicians must be adept at change management. On the other, they must be technically proficient and knowledge rich. There can be no doubt that successfully practicing medicine today requires clinicians to overcome several significant…
Clinics are working overtime to meet the demands of value-based care. In today’s healthcare environment, it pays to have a firm grasp on your clinic’s key performance indicators. That’s why we made this new visual aid to help elevate the importance of tracking to your clinic’s bottom line. Chris Lay…
Note: We are pleased to present the following guest post by Jill Arena, FACMPE – Managing Partner, Health e Practices, LLC Doctors want to deliver better care. That’s why they went to medical school and became physicians. Yet, to actually deliver better care day in and day out, physicians must…