Last year, I was working with our marketing people to focus on our clients' "pain points." They asked me, "What problems and mistakes do you see the most often in the offices you visit?" I went...
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.
Save the date: the 2018 Pediatric Supergroup meeting will be held on May 2-4 in the DC Area. Details to follow.
Last week, I posted my 2018 GPCI analysis - good news to those of you in Massachusetts, bad news for Idaho. Look up your location.
2018 GPCI Analysis - Get it here first!
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[Update - I noticed that I made a mistake in the original data I posted here...yikes! This post has been updated to reflect the accurate values.]
The 2018 RBRVS Final Rules got published last month,...
I hope some of you are still following. Because this is the fun part.
Executive summary: what do independent pediatric practices think about their resources for practice management guidance? Not much. SOAPM wins, hospitals lose, and the AAP is somewhere out there.
A few weeks ago, I opened up a survey with a very specific intent: to find out what, if any, demographic and resource-demand patterns exist among independent practices opening up over the last few...
I am boarding my flight to Plano where I'll give my inaugural presentation entitled, "The Five Biggest Business Mistakes That Pediatricians Make." There might be a little room left, sign up if...
At the NCE, Susanne Madden and I repeated a talk we've done a few times - "How To Start A Pediatric Practice in Five Easy Steps!" - to another very receptive audience. While I'd like to think the...
We live in interesting times - Meaningful Use getting rolled back (good news!) and Medicaid getting rolled back (bad news!).
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