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2023 ICD-10 official guidelines for coding and reporting updates
A summary of the ICD-10-CM Guidelines for 2023.
How to set up a drive-thru flu shot clinic
The best way to issue flu shots might be for patients to never enter your office.
Capturing specialty practice revenue
Three tips and tricks for practices looking to boost the bottom line.
Value-based revenue makes up 6.74% of primary care income
MGMA report shows value-based contracts account for $30,922 per provider
The art of apologizing
Apologizing when you are a physician is important, and its also important to be careful.
Outpatient behavioral health visits rise due to greater telehealth use
Loosened restrictions during pandemic have eased access barriers, report finds
Creating the (almost) perfect practice, part 2
The second part of a series on making your practice run like a well-oiled machine.
How to make your medical practice run (almost) perfectly
There are practical steps physicians can take to ensure their medical practice runs like a well-oiled machine.
New ICD-10 codes to know before October
Changes for ICD-10 documentation codes that go into effect in October 2022.
Managing staff during the Great Resignation: Focus on stayers, not leavers
How to make sure resignations don't derail your staff retention.
Opening a direct care practice: calculating patient volume and fee structure
One of the biggest benefits of the direct care model is its economic simplicity.
Use these two CPT modifiers to get paid correctly
During a typical office visit, physicians may provide evaluation and management (E/M) services, minor procedures and more. The question is: Can they bill for each one separately?
The 2022 Coding Guide
What you need to know to avoid claim denials and to maximize practice revenue
Marketing tips for your medical practice
Harnessing digital marketing tools can help your medical practice grow.
Childcare concerns stress health care workers during pandemic
Study finds more depression, burnout as worries over childcare increase
Better Together program helps extinguish burnout for female physicians
Better Together is a professional, structured coaching program designed by female physicians to address the burnout that is disproportionately experienced by women in medicine.
Four tips for succession planning at your medical practice
Don't wait until it's too late to start planning for practice succession.
Breaking bad habits at your practice
Breaking the chains of habit and tradition can have a positive impact on your practice and wellbeing.
The Water’s Fine: Consider jumping Into Remote Patient Monitoring
What you need to know about RPM before taking the plunge
How PCPs can get ahead of their patients' cognitive decline
Early detection using modern tools is necessary to boost quality of life for your patients
Why your patients need advance care plans
End-of-life care discussions with patients are critical for physicians of any specialty, but especially primary care.
Exclusive physician data: National 2022 survey results are live
Solving the physician shortage
Why concierge medicine may be the solution, not the problem
Coding refresher: How to determine new vs. established patients
The four things you need to know to tell the difference
Why primary care doctors are leaving revenue on the table
Study finds greater use of prevention, care coordination codes could bolster practices' bottom lines
Modifer 25: Are you using it correctly?
The correct use of modifier 25 is one of the issues the federal government is paying close attention to.
The 2022 Physician Report: Exclusive physician salary, productivity, and malpractice survey results
Results of the 93rd annual Medical Economics physician survey are live.
Advance care planning coding: answers to common questions
What physicians and other providers need to know about advance care planning.
Using EHR data for quality improvement focus of new AHRQ handbook
AHRQ publishes new handbook for primary care health IT advisers, practice facilitators to help improve quality through use of clinical EHR data.
How to market your practice to senior patients
Marketing your practice for senior patients takes some different strategies.