On May 23 it will be mandatory to use your National Provider Identifier (NPI) number when billing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Currently, you can use your PIN alone, your PIN and the new NPI, or the NPI alone—but as of May 23, only the NPI number will be accepted.
Rheum’s Role in the New National Health Service
What the United States can learn from the U.K. system
Go Digital
Rheumatologists’ recommendations for choosing an electronic medical record
Clinician Call to Action
Use teamwork, screening, and scheduling to improve efficiency—and patient care
Coding Corner Question
March’s Coding Challenge
Coding Corner Answer
February’s Coding Answer
Physical Intimacy, Sex, and Rheumatic Disease
Sexuality is like the crazy auntie in every family. Everyone knows she’s part of the family, and she’s there at all the gatherings, but no one wants to talk about her, or to her,” says Amye Leong, MBA, of a subject she’s very passionate about: sexual experience and the rheumatology patient. Leong is the speaker for the April 17 ARHP audioconference.
Coding Changes for 2007
Note these CPT and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code changes…
AMA and ACR Physician Practice Information Survey
The American Medical Association (AMA), with the support of the ACR and more than 60 other medical specialty societies, will begin conducting a multispecialty survey of America’s physician practices this year.
Twenty Questions, Part 2
Outcomes measures can standardize care—but they can’t standardize patients