Vaccines Save Lives
At the NCE, I ran into an interesting pediatrician who, among other things, handed me some of these stickers:
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Vaccines (and AAP Presidential Race)
Have you voted, yet, for AAP president?
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H1N1 Admin Reimbursement
I had grand plans to keep track of all the different payers and publicize/shame many of them, but by the time the data came in...it was too late.
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2008 Pediatric Productivity Data
Wow, I've got some awesome data today. So awesome, it even trumps a series of important pediatric RVU and H1N1 announcements (care of the helpful people at the AAP) and Jill Stoller's NBC debut.
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Swine Flu Coding and Other Interesting News
Buried, which seems to be my status since August. Some interesting items:
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Immunization Coding Update
First, some amazing news. I understood that it might happening, but I guess it's official: new admin codes:
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Imms Purchasing, Chapter 2: Physicians' Alliance
A few weeks ago, I did my first piece on the different group purchasing organizations focused on immunizations whom I know, Main Street Vaccines. My goal is to provide an introduction to each of the GPOs and assemble the results in a single place so ...
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Imms Purchasing, Chapter 1: Main Street Vaccines
This is the kind of news that is too much at the cross section of the things that interest me that I can't pass up sharing it. Now, if only I can get Iron Maiden to do a flu shot PSA, I'll be set.
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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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