|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.
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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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