I was recently introduced to Diane Lipton Dennis, the CEO at Lipton Health. Someone thought that I might appreciate her approach to pediatric medical care, which has been to put together a concierge program not for herself, but as a replicable model ...
I was speaking to Bob Chalmers, the ED at Physician's Alliance, when the issue of managing, monitoring, credentialing, and generally working with MAs came up. "Oh, I have just the stuff for you," he said.
I'm just going to call it the "SOAPM party." We can pretend it's all formal and official, but the fact is that it's simply a lot of fun even when the SOAPM executive committee members are dancing on the tables.
Start your planning for next month now. Care of Siouxsie, here's a list of all the "practice" related sessions in Boston. Highlights, though I'm sure I'll miss some, are below. Rumor has it that I might be speaking in one or more of these as a secret...
This is an unabashed ad for the AAP. Their marketing isn't running on all cylinders, so I'm giving them a boost by sharing this list of upcoming publications. Some of these publications are crucial and I don't want my clients to missed this them.
A request was made on SOAPM for a better understanding of the payment for developmental screening, namely the 96110 and 96111. Here's the update for 1Q 2011, where we examined tens of thousands of 9611X CPT codes used by our clients.
It doesn't take much besides a change in title to turn a PCC Users' Conference into an impromptu SOAPM gathering. I took some quick shots of well known SOAPM contributors cooling off before heading out to dinner...can you name them all?
So, I know a guy who knows a guy and he knew a guy...you know how it goes. Well, one of those guys made a cool new iPhone app designed specifically for calculating immunization administration codes. I helped a little with some technical questions, so...
I had a great time speaking to Drs. Bravo and Rogu on their growing podcast, The Pediatric Lounge, to discuss the state of independent pediatricians and the use of data in a pediatric practice. They are cranking out episodes (which is a good thing) and anyone who supports independent pediatricians should tune in to their effort. What they are doing takes a tremendous amount of work and their guest list is amazing (well, besides me). They turned our conversation into back-to-back episodes (32 and 33), "Independent Pediatric Practice 2022" and "Data Data Data and Managing a Pediatric Office." If you prefer video, you catch up on their YouTube channel.