A few weeks ago, there was a challenge on the SOAPM list to come up with the Top 10 Most Egregious Insurance Company Behaviors. Dr. Budd Shenkin compiled and edited the list which, in the draft you see below, I find quite impressive.
It began with a simple message in my mailbox. "Poll for your blog - Will RECs deliver on their mission?" I bopped over to the softwareadvice.com piece about RECs and was pleasantly surprised by their analysis of the REC process so far. Their analy...
At our Pediatric Practice Management and UC event 2 weeks ago (time flies!), the perennial question about whether practices are paid for their use of the VEP machine and CPT code 95930. It seems that just under 10% of PCC's practices us a machine li...
As you may have heard - even the AAP has announced the news - the Final Draft of the Meaningful Use Final Rule has been issued by CMS. There are already dozens of analyses of the results posted on-line (how some of these folks read 860+ pages in a m...
A week ago, one of our clients who retired called us out of the blue to ask if the server that they used 5-10 years ago could be booted up to extract some UHC-specific data. I won't get into the details of what it takes to resurrect an RS/6000 (the ...
"Kids caught in Medicaid pay crossfire" says the CNN article from yesterday. No kidding. There are two important reasons to read this piece. First, it highlights the challenge that pediatricians face when working with Medicaid patients - it usuall...
A few weeks ago, I had the distinct pleasure of being invited back to the EntreMD podcast with Dr. Una. Apparently, our last podcast was her most popular podcast in all of 2020!
