Search results for "Practice Management"
2023 changes to E/M coding: What's new?
As a result of advocacy from ACP and other specialty societies, national guidance for coding inpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services has been revised to align with earlier reforms to reduce administrative burdens starting Jan. 1.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2023/04/2023-changes-to-em-coding-whats-new.htm
1 Apr 2023
Relationships between primary care physicians, specialists may affect patient satisfaction
Patients gave higher ratings after a referral if the specialist trained with their primary care physician, a quasi-experimental study found.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2023/01/10/4.htm
10 Jan 2023
Practice management experts urge docs to use the Web
Susan R. Miller, RN, suspected that business was being lost during the office's peak calling periods. So she did a study.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2008/02/web.htm
1 Feb 2008
Not enough time for primary care clinicians to provide guideline-recommended care, study finds
A recent simulation study estimated that a primary care clinician would require 26.7 h/d to provide preventive, chronic, and acute care, plus documentation/inbox management, to an average panel of 2,500 patients. This time decreased to 9.3 h/d with team-based care.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2022/07/12/2.htm
12 Jul 2022
Clarifying sharing, blocking health information in HIPAA
ACP clarifies how information blocking regulations and the HIPAA Privacy Rule would work together through a newly proposed rule about information sharing and blocking.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2023/07/clarifying-sharing-blocking-health-information-in-hipaa.htm
1 Jul 2023
New ACP curriculum focuses on patient priorities
The new Patient Priorities Care online training series offers practical steps for physicians and care teams to learn how to help patients identify their health priorities and then to align care to them, as well as free CME/MOC.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2022/07/12/3.htm
12 Jul 2022
ACP offers new independent practice resources
The newly launched webpage is dedicated to providing independent practice physicians with resources and tools to help with the business side of medicine.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2021/07/20/6.htm
20 Jul 2021
Is mastering coding worth the time?
While Medicare has added new codes to increase the reimbursement available to primary care practices, they can be difficult to implement and may not align with the integrated flow of a visit.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2022/10/is-mastering-coding-worth-the-time.htm
1 Oct 2022
Annual face time between patients and physicians rose since 1979 due to longer visits
A racial/ethnic gap in time spent with physicians widened over the three studied decades, with White patients getting 22.9 and 14.7 minutes more per year than Black and Hispanic patients, respectively, by 2018.
https://acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2022/06/14/1.htm
14 Jun 2022
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT 8 8 ACP Internist RecallsA class I ...
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT. 8 8 ACP Internist. RecallsA class I recall of certain CADD infusion. ... A. Disha Patel is a Senior Analyst in the Department of Medical Practice in ACP’s Washington, D.C., office.
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2023/04/acpi-202304-2023-changes-to-em-coding-whats-new_t1.pdf
27 Mar 2023