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Learn how pharmacist patient care is evolving. If you’re not sure what pharmacists do in clinical practice or how to report the services they provide, you are not alone. Although pharmacists have provided information in conjunction with the dispensing of prescriptions for decades, providing services separate and distinct from dispensing medications is a much newer […]
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Learn proper billing for antepartum services.
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Learn how to avoid compliance risk in your practice by expertly handling patient complaints.
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Make sure you are following the HIPPA privacy rule during public health emergencies.
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Selecting the correct code for many evaluation and management (E/M) services starts with determining whether a patient is new or established, as defined by CPT® guidelines.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule on June 17 that would base prescription drug payments on patient outcomes.
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Ensure providers have the information they need, before they need it. At the point of triage, patients and family members are typically asked a series of medical interview/history questions. At this juncture, however, staff members do not have the luxury of time to ask a long list of questions and enter responses into health records. […]
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Improve patient comprehension of their health by updating your mode of communication for the 21st century. A recent study found that the average human attention span has fallen to eight seconds. In comparison, scientists believe that the goldfish has an attention span of nine seconds. We have become conditioned to the barrage of texts, tweets, […]
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New patient evaluation and management (E/M) claims are being denied when the patient was previously seen by a specialty physician assistant or specialty nurse practitioner on staff. This is happening when another provider of a different specialty in the same multi-specialty group sees the patient for the first time and bills a new patient E/M […]
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What access should you have to your own medical information? Should you have to pay for it? And if so, how much should it cost? These are three key questions raised by a recent enforcement action conducted by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The answers […]
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