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Tool of the Month
05/16/2011

Download this month’s tool – the Primary Care Incentive Program Payment Calculator, created by Part B News – to help you determine whether your providers are eligible for PCIP money. If they are, the tool also helps you estimate how much incentive cash they can expect quarterly from Medicare.

04/25/2011

Download this month’s tool – an Electronic Health Record Preparedness Assessment created by the California HealthCare Foundation – to help you estimate how much work awaits you in the EHR implementation process. This tool is widely used by technology consultants to gauge the readiness of a wide variety of practices to adopt an EHR system.

03/28/2011
This tool is the Patient Medication List Spreadsheet, brought to you by DecisionHealth Professional Services. It will help you ensure that your physicians are able to see a current and accurate list of the prescription medications, as well as over the counter medicine and supplements being taken by patients.
02/14/2011
Download this month’s tool – a Medical Decision Making Spreadsheet brought to you by DecisionHealth Professional Services – to help you accurately determine the correct level of the complexity of the medical decision for an E/M service. 
01/31/2011
Download this month’s tool – a Covered Preventive Services Table – to help you, your front desk staff and billers keep track of the preventive services subject, and not subject, to patient fees.
12/09/2010

Download the December Tool of the Month to help you determine how your claims stack up against 1995 and 1997 E/M guidelines (see story).

11/18/2010

Download this month's tool - an Annual Wellness Visit Encounter Form brought to you by DecisionHealth Professional Services - to help you efficiently provide Medicare's new annual wellness visit service. 

10/21/2010

Download the October Tool of the Month, developed by DecisionHealth Professional Services, from the Part B News. This tool will help you establish an office policy for providing medical services to your employees.

09/23/2010

 

Download the September Tool of the Month, developed by DecisionHealth Professional Services, by clicking on the "Download File" link at the top of this articleThis tool will help you establish an office policy for efficiently and effectively providing injections to patients. Use this customizable tool to inform the staff at your practice on how to manage injections during this flu season.

08/19/2010

Download the August Tool of the Month, developed by DecisionHealth Professional Services, from Part B News. The tool is a memo to help enforce your office policies for tardiness and patient wait times. Use this customizable tool to reinforce standards your practice has set for the office, and most importantly, quality patient care.

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