You have almost certainly heard about the many potential changes put forward through the CMS proposed fee schedule rule for 2019. Proposed changes to the fee structure for evaluation and management coding is one of the more impactful proposed changes. Depending on your specialty, you...
Few of us enjoy collecting money, and many of us are not good at asking for money. However, this is the position our front desk staff are in every day. We’ve told them they need to collect copays from patients, try to collect outstanding balances,...
Long-time readers know that we like to data-dive from time to time at speroMD. We decided to share something with you from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) website this week. There’s an interesting slide show KFF posted recently summarizing polling results regarding the affordability of...
Multiple sources reported yesterday that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed overhauling Medicare billing standards that have been in place since the 90’s. Anyone who is a physician, coder, works with coding staff, or is otherwise affected by, and versed in the...
With the 4th of July holiday coming up next week, it’s likely that people will be taking an extended weekend to celebrate. In honor of this, we decided to reach into our vault and recycle one of our best-read blogs: Our take on the worst...
You’ve likely heard about the endeavor announced earlier this year by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase to collectively create a better way to provide health care for their employees. (We’ve also previously covered it on this blog.) The group announced this week that...
For those who have been reading our blog for a while, or are familiar with our organization, you know that our mission is to support independent practices. (If you’re not familiar, one look at our website tells the whole story: www.speromd.com). With the sustainability of independent...
Earlier this year, Apple released Health Records as a new element within its Health app, which allows users to access their EHR health data for participating organizations through this app. This week, Apple released an application program interface (API) that will allow integration of health...
We saw a very interesting article in Modern Healthcare this week that we wanted to share with our readers. We have been sharing some compelling healthcare data recently, including some information related to the increasing cost of healthcare, so we thought this may be of...
Late Thursday, Quest Diagnostics and United Health Group announced that they are forming a strategic partnership effective January 1, 2019. The partnership will mean Quest will now be an in-network lab for all United Health Group members. United also extended their existing agreement with LabCorp,...