Though being a good manager requires a combination of experience, education, and learned and honed skills, stylistic and subtle changes to how you communicate and direct your teams can make significant impacts. Here are some simple tweaks all managers can put to use, for improved leadership outcomes. No one said it would easy, but does […]
Read MorePhysician involvement is an especially crucial element at several levels for hospitals transitioning to ICD-10, according to healthcare IT consultant D’Arcy Guerin Gue, writing in ICD10monitor.com. Not only does accurate physician documentation “drive the production of ICD-10 codes,” according to Guerin Gue, executive vice president of corporate services for Richardson, Texas-based Phoenix Health Systems, but […]
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Read MoreOrganizations continue to prepare for testing and the switch to ICD-10, but smaller entities still anticipate difficulties, according to an AHIMA survey. The survey, conducted in May and June, included representatives from 454 healthcare organizations, most from hospitals and physician practices. Sixty-five percent of respondents said they could begin end-to-end testing before the Oct. 1, […]
Read MoreMuch to the consternation of organized medicine, a federally funded Medicaid pay raise for physicians will expire at year’s end without any Congressional action to extend it into 2015. However, all is not lost for physicians who saw their Medicaid rates boosted to Medicare levels for evaluation and management services and vaccine administration in 2013 […]
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