Medical Management Services Blog

So, the date of ICD-10 implementation has come and gone. What can you expect? What trends do you need to watch? What questions do you need to ask? Most practices saw October 1st come and go without much drama and that is because as of October 1, 2015, the revenue coming in the door is still based on ICD-9 (familiar territory) codes. Until the month of September claims have been... Read More

Today is the day many healthcare professionals have been preparing for and dreading, the ICD-10 Deadline. It has been a long road for many and a short, fast, hectic road for many others. If you’ve been ignoring every piece of ICD-10 advice and guidance for the past three years, this is the post you want to read. If you are close or have made all preparations for today’s... Read More

I live in Texas and that means Blue Bell ice cream reigns as the best ice cream in town. Made locally in Brenham, Texas (about an hour from Houston) the ice cream is loved and touted the best all over the south. August 31, 2015 Blue Bell went back on the shelves after 4 months and millions of dollars lost because of bacteria known as Listeria was found in 10 people and 4 states... Read More

The problem within your healthcare organization is not the lack of data. It’s the culture. There is more data available to most practices than there has ever been in the history of healthcare analytics. The tools needed to capture the data, the warehouse capabilities to store the data, the bright minds available to write the programs to parse the data meaningfully and the metrics... Read More