Pediatric Productivity Benchmarks
Just before COVID hit, we at PCC asked ourselves, "What is a 'full time' pediatrician?"
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Is The Rise of Strep Due to Treatment Failure?
When we last tuned in, I shared some data about what looks like an explosion of strep diagnoses among our clients. Starting in October of 2022 and running through May (even June), the level of strep out in the wild had reached unprecedented levels. T...
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The Rise of Strep!
It began - I don't want to say "innocently," so perhaps "innocuously" - on SOAPM with a post from a clever PCC client:
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Pediatric Bookkeeping Satisfaction Results
Last month, I opened a quick survey to try to learn more about the "state of pediatric bookkeeping." This quote from the survey describes how most of you feel: I don't understand any of it and feel at such a loss relying on other people! I just want ...
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What's Happening To Pediatric Visit Volume?
I've heard a lot of dramatic stories about the swing in pediatric visit demand over the last six months. For the third year in a row, our clients have gotten run over by an early-fall rush to their practices followed by a massive dive after the holid...
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Indirect Impact of COVID On Children, Part 5: Baby Boom?
Rewind, painfully perhaps, to May 2020. We didn't know it at the time - we barely knew anything - but we'd just passed the nadir of the COVID impact in your offices. I was freaking out, wondering what would happen to pediatric offices after another m...
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Indirect Clinical Impact of COVID on Children, Part 4: Clinical Demand
We've felt and heard it for over a year now: the demand for mental health services for children has skyrocketed since March, 2020. My clients tell me that they can barely keep up with the demand as anxiety among children has been impossible to manage...
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Anyone tired yet? Fall 2021 Pediatric Volume Report
This roller coaster has been a rough ride. The two biggest pediatric droughts in history - March/April 2020 and January/February 2021 - up against the busiest times in pediatric history - January/February 2020 and now August/September 2021.
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Podcasts/Chip Hart
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.
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