Search results for "Risk Assessment"
New tool for Annual Wellness Visits
The Health Risk Assessment adds a new but not insurmountable layer of effort and time to the visit. ... A Web-based Health Risk Assessment (created by HowsYourHealth.com) can be found online.
May 2012
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risk assessment for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) by using the Pooled Cohort Equations. ... smoking) and a calculated 10-year ASCVD event risk of 10% or higher.
December 2021
EHR era ushers in stricter privacy, security
Experts are advising physicians to conduct a risk assessment, encrypt their electronic files, update their business associate agreements, and train their staff in order to be ready for audits and avoid ... A good risk assessment should uncover any
April 2010
ZIP codes of medical destiny
An article just published in Annals of Internal Medicine reported health outcomes in nearly 110,000 people who had undergone cardiac risk assessment in the Cleveland Clinic Health System. ... The researchers applied the Pooled Cohort Equations Risk Model
May 2022
CONFERENCE COVERAGE Information plus documentation a must for informed ...
sioned in the Centers for Disease Controland Prevention’s Interim Guidance onHealth Risk. ... visits. The College strongly recommendedthat the health risk assessment shouldreceive additional RVUs because of theadditional work and practice expense it
December 2011
Changes coming for colon cancer screening
Potential paths to a higher-value colon cancer screening system include developing alternative screening technologies, refining risk assessment and surveillance, and lowering the cost of sedation. ... What we need is a system for risk stratification.”.
July 2014
Predicting heart disease with markers is risky undertaking
The current debate around the value of CRP for CHD risk assessment could be considered a warm-up for things to come. ... An additive, incremental approach to CHD risk assessment could conceivably drive up health care costs with little return on the
February 2009
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT As always, the Medicare program hassome changes ...
Annual wellness visitsMedicare beneficiaries likely will need. assistance from physician office staff incompleting the health risk assessment envi-.
December 2011
Prescribe opioids, but with caution
Feely said.). Among the first steps to properly managing prescription opioids is performing a risk assessment, she said. ... Many risk assessment tools are available online, and no particular tool is better than the others, she said.
July 2015
Fee schedule updates, penalties explained for 2012
The College strongly recommended that the health risk assessment should receive additional RVUs because of the additional work and practice expense it will require. ... The reimbursement for the health risk assessment will be included in the
January 2012