“Every great story starts with a tipping point. You have to have something that made you make a Herculean change.” For Detroit’s Davies Award-winning Henry Ford Health System, that came…
The Trump administration twice last week demonstrated its interest in simplifying the administrative burden of electronic health records (EHRs) for physicians. Separately, a major new study suggests these high-tech medical…
I need your help. I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of something that's terribly broken in our process of taking care of patients, and I can't do…
Unfortunately, many healthcare providers are missing out on things like electronic billing, email capture. A new survey by the Medical Group Management Association suggests providers, especially hospitals, are missing out…
Changes are coming with Evaluation and Management (E&M) coding guidelines. I will use this space to explain why these changes will be both a good thing and a challenge to…
Implementation of an electronic health record-based prompt significantly increased hepatitis C screening rates among baby boomers in primary care. According to the researchers, HCV screening among adults born between 1945…
Abstract Background A specific Electronic Health Record (EHR) for ophthalmology was introduced in an academic center in Germany. As diagnoses coding corresponding to the International Classification of Diseases Version 10…
Physicians often say they feel like the rules, standards and policies regarding the way they practice medicine change all too frequently. In 2016, there are several key issues physicians should…
For many practices, the day of Oct. 1, 2015 was the nerve-wracking great switch over from ICD-9 to ICD-10. Small practices were pegged as ill-prepared for the storm that was…
Physicians report they are still happy in light of healthcare changes, according to Physicians Practice's 2015 Great American Physician survey. Kareo sponsored the survey. Here are six key points: 1.…
One of the more notable things about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' revisions to its ICD-10 policy on Monday is the fact that the suggestions come straight from…
MANY readers were shocked by my recent article about Peter Drier, who received a surprise bill of $117,000 from an out-of-network assistant surgeon who helped out during his back operation.
When Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first proposed the one-year delay of the compliance date for the transition to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10), it estimated savings of billions to the healthcare industry.
Meaningful use expert Jim Tate has written that the Medicaid EHR incentive program reminds him of "zero entry" swimming pools: very easy to get into, with almost no barriers. Given…