By now, you have heard of CIGNA's announcement to begin automatically downcoding E&M claims based on ICD-10 alone and not physician notes, etc. I don't believe for a second that this decision has anything to do with capturing code fraud and has e...
I have a lot to share, suddenly. Details about The Great Downcoding (AETNA!), the 2026 RVU values, oh - and my new podcast. But this news is more timely.
My biggest challenge writing this blog entry is trying to stay on topic. I want to discuss and argue about every element of vaccination and the pediatric motivation to vaccinate. I want to explain the difference between "making money" and being profi...
Dr. Sandy Chung - who should need no introduction, but you can click right there if you need to - is looking to recruit at least 100 pediatricians in independent practice who are interested in joining a collective effort to purchase malpractice insur...
Things have been busy lately. Perhaps not busy, but...chaotic. You're feeling it, I'm feeling it, we're all feeling it. I promise: we will get through it. And when I say, "it" you all know what I'm talking about. The AAP sure does! [Bravo, SueK and c...
What if all the smart people were in one place? Like, say, at the 2024 AAP NCE? The lineup of speakers and topics is excellent again (as I shared previously), and even the incoming specter of Hurricane Helene isn't enough to dampen my enthusiasm. I h...
On Saturday, October 8 at 7pm in Platinum Ballroom 6 at the 2022 AAP NCE, the AAP will screen Virulent: The Vaccine War Documentary, a film by Tjardus Greidanus and Laura Davis.
HRH Dr. Suzanne Berman shared the great and interesting news that the AAP has lobbied successfully to get the RVU valuations for immunization admins corrected. [I've written about this in the past.] You can read the gory details at https://public-ins...
