Posted on November 18, 2008 by pookiemd
Final Installment on As the Medical Home Turns:
Yes, students, today is the last installment in PookieMD’s dissertion on the ‘Medical Home’. At our last session, we were midway through reviewing the “10 Simple Rules for the 21st Century Health Care System,” rules to guide the redesign of the health care system. These guidelines were put out by [...]
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Posted on November 13, 2008 by pookiemd
Ah, yes, ICD-10 is coming! Yes, the new coding system with 10 times more codes than the previous is slated to go live in 2011. Much of the world now uses ICD-10 because it has more codes, as apparently, we are running out of codes. You, my beloved provider, will be shouldering the burden of [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2008 by pookiemd
Being the socially responsible, business minded physician that I am, (NO this is not an oxymoron!), I read with interest the commentary from the Jama, October 15, 2008 issue (pp 1806-1808), titled, “The Professional Ethics of Billing and Collections,” by Mark A. Hall, JD and Carl E. Schneider, JD. After I calmed myself about having [...]
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