Why You Need To Fix Your Pricing RIGHT NOW!
As you should be aware, the 2021 RBRVS values have a significant impact on the relative value of some key procedures important to pediatricians, especially E&Ms.
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The 2021 Capitation Fun and Games
The other day, I dashed off a quick piece about the capitation contracts some opportunistic payors are floating in front of desperate practices. Here's the longer missive....
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AAP Fighting for Appropriate Vaccine Support
Tonight on the COVID webinar with a few of our friends, I plan to share a lot of information, including the latest data trends (which I'll update here). One chunk of content I want to highlight is this:
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Does Medicaid Affect Patient Volume During COVID?
Executive summary: no, doesn't look like it.
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Impact of 2020 RBRVS on Pediatricians
I received this trigger hypothesis from a faithful reader:
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Insurance Coverage Guidance For Families
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 job is to discuss topics like HDHPs, HSAs, medical ...
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The Confused Parent's Guide to Health Insurance
Meet Dr. Chad Hayes. He's a solo pediatrician in SC with an interesting path to pediatrics who happens to write a particularly interesting and well-considered blog (yay, English majors!). He showed up on SOAPM a while back and endeared himself quic...
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New Patient Visit Benchmark and the ACA
I mentioned I had a lot of work to do after the NCE this week. Here's one of the items hanging over my head (next: Down Syndrome growth charts!).
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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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