The comment I get the most lately - it's not really a question - is that practice volumes are down. [Some] practices are feeling it - when your revenue drops by 5%, your ownership return can drop 10-15-20% easily and that hurts. But I also see practi...
#17 on the List of Things I've Always Wanted To Know But Hadn't Taken The Time To Figure Out - how much vaccine is in your fridge at any given time? And what are those vaccines worth? An interesting math problem, but a fair amount of work and require...
Recently, as we explored the possibility that patients might be canceling or missing well visits at a higher rate (they aren't), followed by an examination of the rate of vaccine refusals (they are increasing rapidly), I was compelled to ask myself: ...
Readers of the my previous post, where we look at the increasing rate of vaccine refusal, surely want to better understand the massive volatility of refusal rates for flu, COVID, and RSV vaccines. As I mentioned, the months with massive refusal rates...
In our previous episode, we wondered if the anti-vaccine propaganda from the present federal (and some state) administrations has had any effect on missed or canceled well visits. Conclusion? Not that we can see in terms of misses or cancellations. T...
At PCC, we perceive our supporting role in the independent pediatric space to include doing the dirty work of measuring the impact of threats to and opportunities for pediatricians and the children they serve - (like COVID [1, 2, 3], the Change Healt...
Every year, I analyze the impact of the RVU changes on pediatricians. Why? Because what the Feds do each year has a profound, downstream effect on pediatricians. Going through this process is also how I figured out what was happening with immunizatio...
By now, you have heard of CIGNA's announcement to begin automatically downcoding E&M claims based on ICD-10 alone and not physician notes, etc. I don't believe for a second that this decision has anything to do with capturing code fraud and has e...
