About the authors
Melinda Tully, MSN, CCDS, is Senior VP of Clinical Services and Education and has 25+ years in Acute Care as a Clinical Specialist and Nurse Practitioner. Her area of specialty is clinical documentation education focused on continuous quality improvement.
Paul Weygandt, MD, JD, MPH, MBA, is a Certified Physician Executive (CPE) with over 20 years of combined experience in medical management, legal counsel, and orthopedic surgery. His area of specialty is facilitating CFO-CMO/VPMA/Physician Relationships to drive quality improvement.
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- David Block MD, PhD on ICD-10: AMA Decision Tries to Avoid the Inevitable – and Will Likely Fail
- David Block MD, PhD on Open Medicare Database, Good or Bad for Healthcare?
- Steve Sisko on ICD-10 Impact on Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial Reimbursement
- Admin on AMA Votes to Stop ICD-10
- David Block MD, PhD on AMA Votes to Stop ICD-10
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Category Archives: Payment
Payment changes to post-acute care providers
This just in from Becker’s Hospital Review: The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed draft recommendations for payment changes to post-acute care providers starting in fiscal year 2013, according to an AHA News Now report. Among its possible draft recommendations, MedPAC … Continue reading
Posted in Finance, Payment
Tagged j.a. thomas, jata, medicare payment advisory, medpac payment changes, medpac payment reductions.
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CMS announces policy, payment rate changes for Physician Fee Schedule 2012
As announced today by CMS: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physicians and nonphysician practitioners (NPPs) for services paid under the Medicare Physician … Continue reading
Plan Ahead ICD-10 Guide for Physician Leaders
Physician leaders have very limited time to implement a strategy, not just to introduce their medical staffs to the concept of ICD-10, but also to present the concept in a manner that will build a collaborative approach. Physician leaders will … Continue reading
ACO Bundled Payment and the Challenge (Opportunity) for Physician Leadership
The concept of moving toward bundled payment solves many issues for CMS. From CMS’s standpoint, they would no longer care how physicians are compensated. At least for physicians practicing in the inpatient setting, CMS would no longer have to provide … Continue reading
Posted in Accountable Care Organizations, Bundled Payment, Finance, Payment
Tagged accountable care organization, aco, bundled payment, cms, physicians
