Medical Management Services Blog

We are one month and three weeks away from the go live date for ICD-10. Your changes to systems and paper should be complete. You should have completed end to end testing with payers (or at the very least have a date of testing). Your staff should be well trained and you should be randomly coding using ICD-10 and ICD-9. Your physicians should be using new documentation rules they... Read More

Below is a portion of an article published recently. Having implemented multiple IT systems over time, the article is amazing. “A new Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality study found that health IT caused interruptions to clinical workflow across all participating clinics and work roles. For the study, researchers examined six ambulatory practices from two participating... Read More

Watching summer sports (baseball, tennis, soccer, swimming) has made me very aware of statistics. Indeed, you cannot view a professional or amateur sport without hearing, graphically seeing and being aware of the statistics. And there are stats for everything (even healthcare). And the point of all these stats are to primarily answer one question: Who/What wins? What pitch will win,... Read More

Obtaining and retaining patients should be the goal of all health care practices. Medical Practice Marketing through a variety of means is un-paralleled in health care history. And with the advent of new web technologies and social media, providers have a much further reach than ever before. The nature of a providers medical practice marketing depends on the specialty. Surgical... Read More