Accelerated Medical Practice Blog

Many medical coding solutions and claim scrubbers promise a way to recover the savings from automating the charge entry process when using an EMR template. When looking for a solution, realize the ideal solution should not be an afterthought or one feature on a list of a hundred features. A coding solution should be carefully examined to determine: What types of rules does it include When are these rules applied Who reviews these errors and makes...

One of the most famous examples of the law of unintended consequences is Kudzu. Introduced to the United States in 1876, the plant was originally intended as erosion control. Currently spreading at a rate of 150,000 acres per year, the plant will overtake everything in its path when left unchecked. What are the unintended consequences created by your EMR implementation? Think back to charge entry employees. Usually, when keying charges into the PM system, the process is more complicated than simple data entry....

The Kaiser Family Foundation published their annual health insurance survey at the end of September.  The results were astounding. Last year, the average premium increase for family plans was 9%, with employer sponsored plans costing an average of $15,000 per family.