Coding and documentation guidelines for billing and documenting nonphysician healthcare provider services.
What Do Your Patients Think About You?
Why your practice needs patient-satisfaction surveys
What’s In A Note?: The Use of Electronic Health Records
The dictum “to write as long as possible” has become the norm for some physicians. Quality, not quantity, should be our goal.
Maintain Rheumatology’s Seat at the AMA Table
The ACR needs a total of 1,000 AMA members to retain our seat in the American Medical Association Federation. Become a member of the AMA today to ensure that rheumatology retains a stake in policy and reimbursement discussions.
American College of Rheumatology Works with AMA to Strengthen Patient Choice
The Medicare Patient Empowerment Act would allow patients and physicians to enter into private contract arrangements without penalty.
Appealing an Audit
If you are prepared for an audit, your medical practice will run more smoothly from both a financial and personnel standpoint.
Coding Corner: May’s Coding Challenge
A 54-year-old female with rheumatoid arthritis is seen by the rheumatologist for a follow-up visit.
Medical Practice Mergers: Being Bigger Has its Advantages
A merger of medical practices can provide significant and long-term benefits to a rheumatology practice. However, a number of difficult decisions and legal issues must be addressed.
The Good and Bad of Cloned Notes
Having an electronic heath record (EHR) system in your practice has many benefits, such as Medicare incentives, quality improvement, and increased office efficiencies. Falling in the “office efficiencies” category is the ability to clone notes, which allows you to cut and paste notes from one visit to another. This documentation option for physicians using EHRs puts them at risk for audits.
CMS Delays ICD-10 Compliance Date
Despite months of assurances to the contrary, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced in mid-February they were indefinitely postponing implementation of International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification. The changeover was originally scheduled to take effect October 1, 2013.
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