Even if you are meticulous in your coding, you still might miss the one Medicare document that says you can’t do a particular thing,” says Pittsburgh attorney William Maruca, chair of the American Health Lawyers Association’s group on fraud and abuse.
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Try and stay calm should something go wrong during your presentation. Don’t take the situation too seriously. The presentation may seem important, but in the grand scheme of things it isn’t.
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Laboratory, x-rays, MRIs, chemotherapy, procedures, etc.
The majority of residents and fellows believe that they should begin their practice search when they begin their final year of training; anytime before that is just too soon.
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Whether you are the referring or the consulting physician, you will be held responsible for the care of a patient who is under your treatment.
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Downsides include fewer referrals and responsibility for all aspects of your business including scheduling, billing and possibly lower gross income.
Academic physicians with multiple partners in practice might see their own patients only or rotate care within a division among several specialists.
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Reliability is how consistently a test measures what it attempts to measure. Why is consistency important? Well, when you measure something with an instrument two times, you want it to come out with the same answer (or close to it) both times.
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The facilitator begins by speaking with each party separately and privately. The facilitator invites each party to explain their own issues, to analyze their issues from the other sides’ points of view, and to try to explain and analyze the other sides’ issues.
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Presenting is a learned skill. As a leader in the medical community, the moment you rise to speak you assume a position of leadership.
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