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 cr...
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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 quickl...
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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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Housecleaning - Important Links and Resources
From my growing pile of interesting links and resources, I offer the following:
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Podcasts/Chip Hart
I've had a busy summer and just wrapped up my time at the Florida AAP chapter's "Future of Pediatrics" annual event. Thank you to those who stopped by to say hello! In a few short weeks, it will be time for the 2024 Pediatric CEO event, which I'm really excited for. I think there are a few seats left. I write, however, to draw your attention to two free resources that every pediatric practice should have bookmarked!
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