The Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 prompted an ongoing effort to reduce healthcare costs while striving to improve quality patient care. A push toward paying for value with a focus on clinical outcomes, incentives, and mandatory reporting, has led
Navigating Self-Pay Patients Due to the growing demand for healthcare coverage, many individuals are excluded, either because they cannot afford the insurance plans available on the healthcare marketplace or because their states opted out of expanding Medicaid. These individuals, commonly
EHRs are intended to help make healthcare a smoother process for everyone. However, not all EHRs are created equal, and some simply don’t hit the mark. Whether you’re looking for your first EHR or replacing your current system, be sure
Patient engagement is a broad blanket term that can be used to define everything from patient portals to the strategies that medical offices use to navigate their social media. In a nutshell, patient engagement is any activity or tool a
By Meghan Franklin Even if you’ve never heard the term “care coordination,” you’ve likely noticed when it was done well. Just as likely, you have noticed when it wasn’t done well. Recently, I learned my 18-month-old son has a tree
WHAT IS A MEDICAL CHART? A medical chart is a document that provides healthcare providers with a patient’s complete medical history and clinical data. It comprises their demographics, vital signs, diagnoses, surgeries they have undergone or are scheduled for, medications
HOW TO CREATE A SLIDING FEE SCALE FOR YOUR MEDICAL PRACTICE It is an undeniable fact that health care is expensive. When it comes to paying for health care, we’re not all equal. All individuals’ circumstances are unique, yet everyone
WHAT IS MOBILE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY? Mobile health technology surrounds us. Have you observed it? Let’s dig into the problems and possibilities we encounter with mobile health technology. A cardiology doctor stops by a patient’s room, removes her smartphone from the
Medicare covers a “Welcome to Medicare” visit and annual “wellness” visits. While both visit types are available to Medicare recipients, recipients aren’t required to participate in either visit type to maintain their Medicare Part B coverage. Annual wellness visits: Not
Population health management (PHM) refers to a concentrated holistic approach to improving the patient health outcomes of a group of individuals. These individuals are part of a larger group that could consist of people within a predetermined health system, a
