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AI-Powered Documentation: A Cure for Physician Burnout?
Burnout among healthcare providers is at an all-time high, and one of the biggest culprits is excessive documentation. Physicians spend nearly two hours on EHR tasks for every one hour of patient care—a statistic that’s both alarming and unsustainable. But what if documentation didn’t have to be such a burden? With Azalea’s Clinical Assistant, powered…
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Streamline Healthcare Operations: EHR and RCM Integration
Sunrise Services, LLC integrates Azalea Health’s ONC-certified EHR system with expert revenue cycle management (RCM) services to enhance medical practice efficiency. This partnership streamlines workflows, improves billing accuracy, and ensures regulatory compliance, ultimately boosting financial performance and patient care quality. Practices benefit from real-time insights and secure communication tools.
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Essential Guide to Implementing Chronic Care Management
Running a private medical practice can be challenging. Many physicians are stretched thin, balancing the desire to provide high-quality, personalized care with the financial realities of running a small to medium size business. Most physicians feel the pressure to see more patients just to keep up with rising costs, but that can lead to burnout…
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NEW REQUIREMENT FOR DEA-REGISTERED PRACTITIONERS
All healthcare professionals who are registered with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) are obligated to complete an eight-hour training on the treatment or management of patients with opioid or other substance use disorders. This training requirement must be fulfilled before their initial or next scheduled DEA registration submission on or after June 27, 2023. To…
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Navigating Financial Challenges & Staffing Shortages in Healthcare
As a healthcare provider, you’re well aware of the financial challenges that come with providing quality care to your patients. In recent years, higher costs associated with treatment, increased demand, and staffing shortages have caused many healthcare organizations to look for alternative ways to reduce costs and optimize services.
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Use this Handy Chart to Help with Coding Prolonged Services
If you’re confused about which code to use for your Medicare and private payer patients — as well as how best to calculate at what point the service will require a prolonged services add-on code — check out the following chart. Remember: Per the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule, the Centers for Medicare…
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Know Payer Preferences for 2023 New Prolonged Service Codes
CMS, CPT® still split on when you can code for extra time. In the last few years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has changed how you’ll code prolonged services in more than one way. Things are getting tricky for prolonged service coding. CMS implemented more changes to prolonged service coding with the 2023…
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New ICD-10 Codes for 2022 Have a Strong Focus on Social Determinants of Health
Many of the 191 new ICD-10 codes that go into effect Oct. 1, 2021, can be found in Chapter 21: Factors influencing health status and contact with health services. Many of these codes will help you add crucial details about a patient’s life to their medical record because many of these codes involve social determinants…
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Telehealth’s Limits: Battle Over State Lines and Licensing Threatens Patients Options
If you live in one state, does it matter that the doctor treating you online is in another? Surprisingly, the answer is yes, and the ability to conduct certain virtual appointments may be nearing an end. Televisits for medical care took off during the worst days of the pandemic, quickly becoming commonplace. Most states and…
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AMA announces CPT code set ready for third doses of COVID-19 vaccines
The American Medical Association (AMA) announced that the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set is ready for the rollout of third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The two vaccine administration codes are effective for immediate use as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized third doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna for…