benchmarks

When A Broken Furnace Leads To A Sore Neck

So, the furnace broke some time last night, just in time for our first real snow. As I waited at home for the repair guy to arrive (his truck broke down on the way), I’ve had to be on the phone with my neck scrunched for the last hour. Which means no...
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Pediatric Physical Rate (Data GOLD)

For years, I have promoted the concept of doing more well visits in your pediatric practice. I believe that it’s not only a clinically superior path, it also is more financially beneficial to the practice.
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Asthma and Flu Shots

According to CDC and The American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology (check out THAT acronym!), children with asthma should be kept up to date with their flu shots.
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Pediatric Revenue Benchmark

Before I get into today’s info, I want to remind people of our AAP-endorsed Pediatric Coding and Practice Management conference in two weeks in Columbus and of our new audio conferences (starting next week).
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Catch Up and Dashboards

I have been a little remiss in my blog duties lately - "work" intervenes. As I type, I am attending a class on dashboard design with Igor. We've been fascinated by what we have learned during our development of our PCC dashboards - if you want to che...
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Latest Pediatric E&M Distribution Benchmark

By request (check the comments), here is the latest Pediatric E&M Distribution data from PCC. You can't get it much fresher than this - a few million E&M CPT codes, from May 2007 to May 2008. I had a good, in-depth, analysis earlier this year...
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Podcasts/Chip Hart

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I'd like to introduce Charting the Future, a new pediatric podcast featuring independent pediatricians from around the country.
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