A fire alarm interrupts more than the appointment schedule. Staff need to know who is still in the practice, which patients require assistance, and how essential care information will remain available if the building must be vacated. A busy front desk may have some of those answers, but the information can be scattered across scheduling Read more…
How AI Medical Scribes Are Transforming Clinical Documentation
Healthcare has always depended on accurate documentation. Doctors and other medical professionals need to record patient concerns, clinical findings, treatment decisions, medications, and follow-up plans during or after every visit. While these records are essential for patient care, documentation can also take a significant amount of time. This is where an AI Medical Scribe is Read more…
How Better Patient Education Can Improve the Management of Common Ear Conditions
Ear problems are so common that most people figure they can diagnose them at home. A sharp pain gets labeled an infection, a muffled, blocked feeling gets blamed on earwax, and ear drops are treated like water because they go “just in the ear.” Those everyday assumptions lead to trouble. Five out of six children Read more…
Medical Coding Changes in OBGYN: What Practices Need to Know
Maternity coding is moving away from reporting obstetric care as a single global package and toward a more detailed, phase-based approach. Recent CPT changes remove existing codes, introduce new codes, and revise others that affect how antepartum, labor, delivery, and postpartum services are captured. For practices providing or managing OBGYN medical billing services, the challenge Read more…
8 Medical Coding Errors to Avoid
Both the government and private insurers are becoming increasingly stringent when it comes to medical billing practices, with audits revealing cases of both fraud and abuse. While providers deserve to paid in full for the services they provide, it is essential that billing practices that might be construed as fraudulent or abusive be avoided. This Read more…
Tips for Telehealth Coding
There’s nothing more frustrating than rendering service and not being paid. Here are a few tips to help you properly conduct and document telehealth services. Telehealth is the new normal of the American healthcare industry, especially in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. But, there’s nothing more frustrating than rendering service and not being Read more…
Covid-19 and the Rise of Value-Based Models
The increased adoption of virtual care technologies is accelerating value-based care. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a sense of urgency around numerous healthcare-related issues and opportunities that were already on the radar but were awaiting large-scale implementation. The foremost objective of providers and healthcare systems today remains to keep people out of hospitals and Read more…
See and Treat Patients Remotely with Telemedicine
Slow and steady telemedicine has evolved as the ultimate tool for empowering providers to see and treat patients remotely. Telemedicine is the new face of healthcare. It has gained significant attention during the recent COVID-19 public health emergency, which essentially put a halt to our daily lives. The need for healthcare increased manifold during this Read more…
Five Care Transition Takeaways from Covid-19
Bank valuable lessons from the coronavirus pandemic to navigate such turbulent times. Even though the coronavirus pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for healthcare providers, it has also unleashed valuable lessons to help us navigate through turbulent times such as these. What remains imperative to note is that we can deploy these understandings to develop better Read more…
Five Reasons Why You Should Embrace Telemedicine At Your Practice
The healthcare industry is evolving at a rapid pace as practitioners embrace digital technology and look for innovative ways to enhance the delivery of care. Telemedicine today has become the buzz word of the global healthcare industry. With the increasing competition in the sector and squeezed revenues, virtual care is breaking down barriers that Read more…