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Finding ways to solve the growing ‘public health crisis’ of physician, staff burnout
03/04/2019
by: Richard Scott
You may think of it as stress, depression, dissatisfaction with the job or a galaxy of other terms or descriptions, but one thing is clear about the long-climbing rates of physician burnout: The ramifications across health care are immense.
They slip, you fall: Have policy and procedures for hazards to avoid accidents, legal grief
03/04/2019
by: Roy Edroso
You know what to do with patients who come into your practice hurt — but what about patients who come to the office and then get hurt? Establish some ground rules for addressing hazards and handling patients who suffer an on-premises injury, while under treatment or not, and avoid legal complications down the road.
Meet time, education requirements to guarantee ACP coding success
03/04/2019
by: Richard Scott
Don’t sweat the details of advance care planning (ACP) codes 99497 and 99498. You’ll find significant leeway in how you choose to approach and report ACP services given CMS’ open-ended coding requirements, which should push the already strong growth of the codes to new heights.
Office E/M codes not always used in the office – and not always denied when they’re not
03/04/2019
by: Roy Edroso
Office E/M codes — 99201-99205 for new patients, 99211-99215 for established patients — are usually filed with the office place-of-service code (POS) 11, but they’re also filed from other sites and, to a surprising extent, accepted by Medicare contractors when they are.

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