Search results for "Reimbursement"
An easy screen for an overlooked disease
Despite poor awareness and a lack of training on handling peripheral artery disease, internists can and should be able to recognize the symptoms and manage 95% of cases. Experts advise how to diagnose and treat the condition.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/04/PAD.htm
1 Apr 2011
ACP offers recommendations on ‘concierge’ medicine
One recommendation states that physicians in all types of practices must honor their professional obligation to provide nondiscriminatory care, serve all classes of patients who are in need of medical care, and seek specific opportunities to observe their professional obligation to care for the poor.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2015/11/10/2.htm
10 Nov 2015
Quality reporting offers ‘pick your pace’ participation
A “pick your pace” option for quality reporting under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 will give internists a chance to ease into the new payment system by choosing their levels of participation.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/03/tips.htm
1 Mar 2017
Expensive vaccines may wipe out wrong target—the doctor
New and expensive vaccines added to the schedule for adolescents, adults and children over the last several years have created a crisis in the delivery system that threatens to reduce or eliminate the private provider's role, say experts following the issue.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/04/vaccine.htm
1 Apr 2009
New year brings big, small changes to practice administration
Three federal regulations create new opportunities and hurdles for physicians, including new reimbursements, Medicare annual wellness visits and a potential uptick in office visits to document over-the-counter drugs for health plans.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/02/coding.htm
1 Feb 2011
PQRI overhaul finds faults and inputs fixes for 2009
A chief medical officer with Medicare explains how the agency listened to doctors to improve and made easier a program that promises more reimbursement for the care you're already delivering to your patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/05/cms.htm
1 May 2009
Telemedicine connects remote areas with care
Modern medicine is dramatically cutting the distance that patients must travel, even for severe injuries. Consulting by telemedicine reduces delays, improves patient outcomes and brings health care to areas that otherwise wouldn't have it.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/04/one.htm
1 Apr 2008
Help ACP determine Medicare's physician service payments
ACP will invite random members to provide feedback that could influence Medicare reimbursement on services common to internal medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/07/practice.htm
1 Jul 2010
Medicine and management: hits from Hospital Medicine
An expert discusses managing aortic dissection as a disease for life. Also, highlights from Hospital Medicine 2009 discuss caring for the pregnant patient, documenting care for the best reimbursement and ways to improve handoffs from shift to shift.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/07/shm.htm
1 Jul 2009
Lobbying for residents, payments, and fixes to step therapy
Although it's not in the job description, sometimes the practice of medicine requires political advocacy, as ACP did at Leadership Day.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/07/lobbying-for-residents-payments-and-fixes-to-step-therapy.htm
1 Jul 2023