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|Articles|January 25, 2011

Keeping up in a down economy

The author offers some tips to keep exam rooms and bank accounts full in light of today's foreclosures, layoffs and lost insurance from patients.

Also, fewer insurers are paying for modifier 25 (illness care at a wellness exam), so we ask patients to schedule separate well and ill visits or to sign a waiver to ensure our extra work will be paid.

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