We live in interesting times - Meaningful Use getting rolled back (good news!) and Medicaid getting rolled back (bad news!).
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.
"As such, the Academy is profoundly disappointed that CMS not only continues to bundle these services (ie, status indicator “B”) but fails to publish the RUC-recommended values for these codes."
Update: We've received an overwhelming response to this market survey so we are no longer looking for more input! I'll be back soon with the results.
Recently, we had the bright idea to take a look at some of our UC Dashboard winners to learn if there were any patterns that we could identify as Best Practices in order to share with everyone else. ...
I'm delighted to share our first-ever "subscriber penned" contribution to the Independent Pediatrician:
About 10 years ago, a practice I know posted a message to SOAPM - maybe it was PedTalk! - about hiring a full time staff person to help guide families through their insurance coverage details. Her...
A few weeks ago, with the help from some friends, we hosted a webinar on the topic of Patient Recall Strategies for pediatricians. We had more than 50 attendees (which is a lot for these things) and...
A few months ago, one of our pediatric practice management friends reached out to us to look for any good on-line resources for coding training for his pediatric clients. "Someone must have a WWW...
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