I really can't make too much of the quarterly Verden Rankings. Anyone sitting down to negotiate with an insurance company or analyze contracts should have a copy in hand. It's not only free, but you...
Verden Does It Again
April
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2008
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Verden Group's First Managed Care Report
April
21,
2008
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Awesome, just awesome. I love it.
Cut Out The Middleman
April
14,
2008
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It appears that the chorus of people suggesting that we cut out the middleman in our physician-insurance-patient tripod (to mix metaphors) has grown even larger. I will continue to write about the...
Immunization/Vaccine Chart
April
10,
2008
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It's been a rough week, especially over at PedTalk. The autism/vaccines "debate" has poisoned the waters of discussion pretty badly and I have a feeling that some of the anti-vaccine crowd is trying...
More About the Myths of Medical Supergroups
March
31,
2008
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I have had the distinct pleasure and honor to be allowed a few moments in the most recent issue of the SOAPM newsletter. I believe they will have it on-line for their members any-moment-now, but I do...
Prompt Pay Laws
March
07,
2008
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I'm stumped.
Perfect Pediatric Concierge Practice Example
February
23,
2008
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Over on one of the MGMA mailing lists (whose content and quality seem to diminish over time), the ED of an interesting organization - True North: Maine's Center for Functional Medicine and the...
Concierge Pediatric Practice
February
14,
2008
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Back on the SOAPM list, I saw an interesting discussion about concierge practices. There was the usual commentary ('Only crazy people in super special circumstances could do that!'), so I thought I'd...
Igor has been very busy lately, and he decided to look into how much our clients benefit from using two of Partner's features: the ability to send "electronic bills" and automatically check...
CCHIT and Pediatricians
February
04,
2008
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Over the past year or so, we have had a lot of questions here at PCC about CCHIT certification. "Will PCC's EHR be certified? Is a non-CCHIT certified EHR bad? Do we need a CCHIT certified EHR?"
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