What does pay for performance mean for locum tenens physicians? Since locum tenens physicians may work at multiple locations within a year, it is vital for them to keep up with their own procedure logs from all work locations, according to Di Hall, CPCS, CPMSM, director of compliance and...
The public now has until January 31 to submit suggestions for revisions to the NPDB Guidebook. The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) guidebook will incorporate legislative and regulatory changes adopted since its last edition (2001), including the merger of the NPDB with the...
New expert guidance from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, published online last week in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, could make the white coat a relic. The recommendations suggest that physicians ditch traditional white coats, which could...
Adoption of basic electronic health record (EHR) systems by office-based physicians increased 21% from 2012 to 2013, according to an issue brief from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, 48.1% of physicians had...
Telemedicine is just beginning to carve out a niche in intensive care. The evolution of tele-ICU programs is detailed in a report from the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI), a health policy group that promotes the expansion of telemedicine. The report notes that, as of late 2012, there...
As an MSP, your daily practice no doubt involves a mix of sophisticated electronic systems and low-tech methods for gathering and reporting information. How are your physicians doing with that? An...
