FINDING “THE GOOD PLACE”
Clinicians that can get themselves to be in “The Good Place” are those that are firing on all cylinders. They have high patient satisfaction scores,…
TIME IS 💰: 2021 E/M Changes for Outpatient Services: Observations + Tips for Week 1
OBSERVATIONS + TIPS FOR WEEK 1 Apparently, there was a sudden interest in this topic, and people found their way to my Blog post to read up,…
🍺 THREE IPAs 🍺
I spoke to a local beer brewer once and asked him what he prefers to make, and his answer was something like a Triple, Doppelbock,…
💀 MEMENTO MORI💀
I just read a wonderful article by Dr. BJ Miller, hospice and palliative medicine physician. As 2020 had been a very challenging year, with much of the…
TIME IS 💰: 2021 E/M Changes for Outpatient Services
Medical Decision Making (MDM) and Time: these are what you need to focus on for Evaluation Management (E/M) coding as of January 1st, 2021. History…
LOAN REIMBURSEMENT PROVISION: CARES ACT (UPDATED)
UPDATE: No surprises, but my organization has said that they haven’t budgeted for this provision, and cannot participate. Given this financial disaster of a year,…
SETTING FIRE 🔥 TO STUDENT LOANS
Disclaimer: I’m not a financial adviser, nor do I play one on the internet, so all contents within this post should be vetted by you…
LOUDER THAN WORDS: Frustrations with the glacial pace of bureaucracy
For those of us who work within a health care organization, as opposed to a private practice, we are thrust into a bureaucratic structure when…
🎖ABOVE AND BEYOND🎖
For those of you that are just starting out in your careers, or will be graduating in 2021 and getting into practice, or even for…
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER (AND LEVERAGE)
As I like to say: “Knowledge is power, and also leverage.” So, let’s empower ourselves about concepts and rules that we work within, and then…