Search results for "Preventive care"
Handbook offers practical guidance on preventive health records
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality recently released a guide titled “An Interactive Preventive Care Record (IPHR): A Handbook for Using Patient-Centered Personal Health Records To Promote Prevention.”
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/08/07/6.htm
7 Aug 2012
Internal medicine subspecialists, other specialty care physicians provide many primary care services
Almost 40% of medical visits for primary care services were to non-primary care physicians, a new study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/08/28/1.htm
28 Aug 2012
Tool simplifies quality measure reporting
The Physician Quality Reporting System recently switched from incentive payments for adopting it to penalties for not doing so. To avoid future penalties, use ACP's registry tool, the PQRIWizard, to fulfill the requirements.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/01/tips.htm
1 Jan 2013
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT The 2013 Medicare physician feeschedule rule changes ...
The bulk of thisincrease (3%) comes from the new transi-tional care management codes. ... For instance, commonmeasures for internal medicine relate to dia-betes or congestive heart failure manage-ment or preventive care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/01/acpi-201301-coding_t1.pdf
3 Jan 2013
CMS considers codes for additional non-face-to-face services
New codes will allow billing for the complicated and far-reaching services that are provided as part of chronic complex care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/09/coding.htm
1 Sep 2013
More primary care visits may lower colorectal cancer incidence, mortality
Medicare beneficiaries who see their primary care clinicians more often have lower colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates and lower overall mortality, a study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/10/01/1.htm
1 Oct 2013
Practice Tips: What your practice needs to know about health insurance exchanges
Learn how to bring patients up to speed on their new access to health care via health insurance marketplaces, or as they're known, “exchanges.”.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/10/tips.htm
1 Oct 2013
Updated guidelines released for management of HIV in primary care
The HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) released updated guidelines last week on management of HIV in primary care.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/11/19/7.htm
19 Nov 2013
Lung cancer screening guideline debated
New screening recommendations for low-dose CT for smokers will prove to be trickier to follow than most preventive care guidelines, experts say. Learn what issues to consider, where to refer patients, and how to deal with the results.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/03/lung-cancer.htm
1 Mar 2014
Answering questions about coding for ACA-mandated services
ACP's practice management staff answers questions about coverage of and coding for preventive services mandated by the Affordable Care Act.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/03/coding.htm
1 Mar 2014