As the calendar page turns over to another year, a big opportunity for medical practices to reduce administrative burden, bill more accurately, and increase profitability and care quality is on the horizon. In 2021, the Evaluation and Management (E&M) coding...
Telemedicine has been thrust into the forefront this year, yanked from a marginal “early adopter” technology into the spotlight as table stakes for any practice that wanted to survive the COVID pandemic. Now we are entering the inevitable “sawtooth curve” of compound...
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is one of the most talked-about areas of innovation in healthcare today, and for good reason: many consider RPM an exciting extension of the way telehealth has already allowed practices to offer more comprehensive care. During...
The Private Equity healthcare sector was dealt a “double-whammy” by the appearance and endurance of the COVID pandemic: just as practice valuations had been soaring to arguably overvalued levels in deals done leading up to March 2020, COVID came and wiped out much of...
Over just the past six months of 2020, we have seen an incredibly accelerated evolution in the role of telehealth. It went from a rarely used technology to a basic “table stakes” capability for modified practice re-opening and revenue in the summer, to where we are...
As many of us know, Risk Adjustment is an area of healthcare where technology and systems make it hard to accurately report at the practice level. But, this piece of the revenue puzzle is often critical not only to the financial well-being of payers, but to the...
The sudden – and ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has been the greatest external disruptor that the modern healthcare industry has ever seen. That tumult has unmoored everyone involved, from hospital systems, to physician groups, to practitioners, to patients and...
If your practice’s staff and practitioners feel a chronic level of frustration with your EHR, you’re not alone; it’s a common dynamic, as most of us got into the healthcare field to play a role in helping patients, not to become IT experts. This frustration frequently...
Meeting quality measures and improving performance don’t just happen on their own but require some effective in-practice strategies. The top three strategies are: Complete and accurate documentation Proactive patient outreach Effective patient engagement Health plans...
A security risk assessment (SRA) isn’t something that healthcare organizations can or should put off. It is a requirement for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). A risk assessment also helps to identify any vulnerabilities that hackers...
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