Practice Management

Under the Affordable Care Act, most health plans are required to cover preventive services such as depression screening for adults and behavioral assessments for children. That means more patients will be turning to their primary care doctors for help with emotional and behavioral health problems.

This chart outlines the differences in coding for Coronary Atherosclerosis, Angina Pectoris, and Myocardial Infarction under ICD-10.

How does the American Board of Internal Medicine spend the revenue it obtains from physicians' maintenance of certification fees? This chart breaks it down.

Physicians can implement these workflow strategies at their practices to put the focus back on patient care and to better delegate care functions to clinical staff.

A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services advisory panel concluded that Medicare should not cover annual lung cancer screening tests for heavy smokers, a recommendation that has been criticized by advocates of the screening test.

Only a small number of physicians and hospitals have attested to Meaningful Use stage 2, months into the reporting year, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

A reader writes that too much healthcare spending is for overhead, and not enough is for patient care.

Most electronic health record systems are a cost drain for practices, but deriving revenue from a system is possible.

Many chronically ill Americans suffer from food insecurity, study finds

Based on industry data collected through April 15, the GOP-led House Energy and Commerce committee estimates that only 67% of healthcare exchange enrollees have paid their premiums.

As more Medicare patients are being served by ACOs, and their numbers continue to grow, a recent survey by the National Association of ACOs says that many aren’t happy with the risk involved in upcoming Medicare contracts.

Language in a new CMS rule implies that October 1, 2015, is now the date for using the new coding system.

Because many people have been using e-cigarettes as a was to stop using tobacco products, healthcare providers need to know the latest information on whether these new devices are safe for their patients.

The nation’s decades-long focus on treating the disease and its consequences appears to be yielding results

More than 10,000 physicians have signed an online petition demanding that the ABIM repeal recent changes to its MOC process that petitioners say could cost physicians more time and money.

A reader writes that he has seen no financial benefit from adopting electronic health records in his practice.

A reader predicts that the financial burden of converting to the ICD-10 coding system will bankrupt many practices

Lee Kim, JD, FHIMSS, director of privacy and security at HIMSS, answers five questions for physicians facing possible issues now or in the future arising from Heartbleed.

In recent months, close to 65 electronic health record (EHR) systems have been certified to meet Meaningful Use 2 criteria for complete EHR systems.

Even though Congress failed to repeal Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate formula last month, the odds are good that it will happen in the not-too-distant future. Here's what repeal may mean for your practice.

What screening recommendations and the arrival of new-but expensive-treatments means for primary care practices

Familiarity with the new combination codes is needed to ensure that documentation is sufficient to capture any related conditions, both the etiology and manifestation, and/or any related symptoms for the condition being reported.

The revenue cycle model for a medical practice is more complex than many other businesses, and a line of credit can be a lifesaver for a practice dealing with operational disruptions.

Incident-to billing is a way of billing outpatient services provided by a non-physician practitioner, but it can be confusing. Here's what you need to know.

The Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians has issued a clinical practice guideline on the treatment of anemia in patients with heart disease.

The controversy over copy-paste in EHRs has been around for a long time, but it has recently gained new urgency.

Facing shrinking reimbursement rates and a growing list of administrative tasks, many primary care physicians are exploring alternative practice options, including direct-pay models.

The strain on primary care physicians will likely worsen as the new patients enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans arrive.

New patients expected under the Affordable Care Act may create a need for an additional nurse practitioner or physician at your practice. Here are tips for bringing on a new provider at your practice to boost efficiency.