Every year, I try to analyze the impact of the RVU changes on pediatricians. Why? Because what the Feds do in the Nov/Dec/Jan cycle each has a profound, downstream effect on pediatricians. Going...
About Chip Hart
Chip Hart is the Director of PCC’s Pediatric Solutions consulting group and author of the popular blog Confessions of a Pediatric Practice Consultant. Chip’s 25 years of pediatric practice management expertise has helped hundreds of pediatricians increase their clinical and financial health. He has conducted many successful insurance contract negotiations on behalf of his clients and worked as a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the AAP Section on Administration and Practice Management (SOAPM).
As a dynamic and motivating speaker, Chip leads educational seminars and consults for pediatric professionals nationwide for organizations like the AAP, state chapter AAP programs, the MGMA, and various physican and hospital organizations around the country. Chip was a member of the CCHIT Child Health Work Group and is a member of the CDC Clinical Decision Support and Children’s Model EHR Format working groups.
Chip contributes articles on practice management and health care information technology for Pediatric Coding Alert, the AAP’s SOAPM Newsletter, Medical Group Management Association, The Independent Pediatrician and more.
Chip lives in Vermont with his wife and their two sons.
Executive summary: imperfect, but compelling, evidence shows that not only are there racial disparities with flu shot administration, it has gotten worse in 2020.
Executive summary: the evidence that child BMI is increasing significantly during COVID...maybe? A little? However, we need to check again in a couple months.
UPDATE, 01/28/21: When I completed this analysis in December, 2020, I was using the originally published GPCI values. In early January, the Feds updated the GPCI values significantly. It took me...
Free and Legal 2021 RVU-RBRVS Calculator
December
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Welcome to the free 2021 RBRVS Calculator.
As you may know, the AMA won’t let anyone freely distribute an RVU calculator that includes CPT codes without signing a limiting an expensive licensing...
Here it is, wait no longer.Free MDM Calculator
The 2021 Capitation Fun and Games
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The other day, I dashed off a quick piece about the capitation contracts some opportunistic payors are floating in front of desperate practices. Here's the longer missive....
I sat down with - virtually, anyway - with PCC's certified coding expert, Jan Blanchard, to discuss the impact of the 2021 changes to E&M charting and coding.
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