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12/03/2018
To keep up practice performance and cement employee loyalty in a tight market, improve your training of non-clinical staff to include not only job basics but also patient service and, where appropriate, management skills.
12/03/2018

Expand your horizon when it comes to remote patient monitoring, and you’ll find a tech-fueled way to seize payment opportunities when assessing and managing care during non-face-to-face episodes. Medicare will cover three new CPT codes for “chronic care remote physiologic monitoring” starting Jan. 1.

12/03/2018

New studies show a disturbing number of patients abandoning prescriptions they can’t afford, but a little extra effort on your part — including patient outreach and an appeal letter to the insurer — might help some of your patients get a second chance.

12/03/2018

Ensure your providers are reviewing a patient’s use of opioids during encounters for the initial preventive physical examination (IPPE) and annual wellness visit (AWV) codes or you’ll face the threat of a denial, according to updated Medicare guidance.

12/03/2018

Now that the scores are in, you can assess the winners and losers of the final 2019 Medicare physician fee schedule, which increased the payment rates of some oft-used codes and slashed rates on others.

12/03/2018

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