Evaluation-and-management services will be rewarded Primary care physicians generally are pleased with the 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, as reimbursement for office-based evaluation and management (E/M) services will increase this year. So will the value of many bundled services, such as maternity services and transitional care management. What’s more, the new fee … [Read more...]

Some say the new rates will help doctors provide frontline care in their communities, while others believe the rates will ‘destabilize a healthcare system already under severe strain.’ Primary care physicians are pleased they will be rewarded for the time and energy spent on evaluating and managing their patients, especially those with chronic conditions, per the 2021 … [Read more...]

When to leave your sales “child” at the office By Sandler Systems, the nation’s leading resource for sales training Transactional Analysis, or TA, is the human relationship based selling model built upon and around the premise that each one of us, through no fault or effort of our own, is actually three people in one: The Child we once wereA “copy” of the Parent or … [Read more...]

Emergency physicians were tired, but determined, amid rising hospitalization rates and COVID cases. Dr. Ryan Stanton, an emergency physician practicing in Kentucky, didn’t have to think long about what words he would use to sum up how he feels after months of providing emergency care amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Fatigued and tired,” he said. “Everybody’s worn out.” Indeed, … [Read more...]

Few clinical conditions have been subject to the level of scrutiny of the effectiveness of screening as colorectal cancer. Numerous studies have shown that early detection can result in up to a 90% survival rate for stage I, but detection after the metastatic process has begun has a far worse prognosis, 11% for stage IV colon cancer.  Early cancer detection saves lives, … [Read more...]