5 Practice Management Tips to Increase Efficiency
We all work hard – but the key differentiator lies in whether we work smart too! Efficiency can be defined as the state or quality of being able to accomplish something with ...
Population Health Management Strategies
The basic goal of population health management is to manage the health of a defined population optimally by providing the right intervention(s) to the right people at the rig...
50% Practitioners not prepared for MACRA Quality Measures
It has been more than two years since Congress voted to enact the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 and subsequent deadlines for various aspects of the law...
Efficient Provider Credentialing for Greater Patient Safety
To provide the best possible healthcare to your patients, it is important that your healthcare providers are up to the task. But, how can you ensure that the healthcare provi...
What is HCC Coding/What does HCC Stand for?
HCC scores have been used since 2004 by Medicare to adjust payments based on the risk level of the enrollee. This has resulted in Medicare paying a higher monthly capitation ...
What is MIPS and What it Means for Cardiologists
The new MACRA implementation has brought about nothing but chaos and confusion among medical practitioners, and more so for cardiovascular specialists. What is MIPS and what ...
Understanding Net Collection Rates
Understanding net collection rates will help you to gain a better understanding of how much money that is owed to your practice is collected. Calculating your collection rate...
Top MACRA Challenges for Clinicians
MACRA replaces the service based payment with the value-based payment system. This change has brought about a number of challenges for the physicians, which they have to over...
CMS: 800,000 Physicians Exempted from MACRA MIPS Reporting
CMS seems to have done a complete turn-around since its 2016 release of mandating MACRA participation, especially for the Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs). As of th...
Pediatric Telemedicine To See Growth
Healthcare practitioners have always been welcoming to new technological developments that assure better care facilities for their patients. Telemedicine care is one such imp...
