March/April 2021

Journal of Medical Practice Management

March/April 2021

Vol. 36, No. 5 · 9 articles

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  1. What Is Your Risk Adjustment Factor? Documenting Disease Burden, Hierarchical Condition Categories to Optimize Revenue in Value-Based Payment Models

    JMPM March/April 2021 Venkat L. Prasad, MD, FAAFP, MBA/MHA, CPE, Brittani McGuire, CRC, Leah Lynch, MD, Terry Mainous, MSN, RN, CMPE, Kristine Fay, MHA, CMPE

    Annual documentation of disease burden and coexisting conditions in a practice’s patient population is an important strategy in ensuring optimal resource allocation by payers in value-based payment models.

  2. VA Community Care and Medicare Reimbursement Comparison for Top Ten Ophthalmic Procedures

    JMPM March/April 2021 David N. Younessi, BA, Curtis E. Margo, MD, MPH, Paul B. Greenberg, MD, MPH, Dustin D. French, PhD

    We investigated how reimbursement rates for the VA community care program compare to those for Medicare for 10 common ophthalmic procedures in fiscal year 2020.

  3. Utilizing Web 2.0 to Bridge Healthcare Communication Gaps

    JMPM March/April 2021 Neil Baum, MD, Brittney C. Bauer, PhD

    This article introduces and defines the eras in Web technology, describes the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, and provides examples of the application of Web 2.0 in contemporary healthcare.

  4. Physician Billing During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency: Ambiguities Abound

    JMPM March/April 2021 Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHCQM, CHRI

    This article addresses the regulatory flexibilities and waivers associated with claims for services provided to Medicare fee-for-service patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  5. Leading Employees Through Change

    JMPM March/April 2021 Laura Hills, DA

    This article explores why change is so difficult for employees to accept and how healthcare executives can successfully lead their employees through the process of change.

  6. Employed Physicians: Your Contract and Future Buy-In

    JMPM March/April 2021 Jeffrey T. Gorke

    When you’ve made it to the point of an offer for employment, and you’ve decided this is the right fit, you should understand some basics about the contract with which you’re about to be presented.

  7. Consider Apologizing to Employees

    JMPM March/April 2021 David F. Smith, PhD

    An apology requires leadership skills to: (1) recognize the problem; (2) craft an apology; and (3) deliver it correctly for the apology to be effective.

  8. Becoming a Certified Telemedicine Professional: Taking Telemedicine to the Next Level

    JMPM March/April 2021 Sajeesh Kumar, PhD, John White II, MD, FAAFP, Neil Baum, MD

    This article is intended to help physicians overcome telemedicine’s potholes and pitfalls and make telemedicine an integral part of nearly every medical practice.

  9. An Honest Assessment of Your Healthcare Practice: The SWOT Analysis

    JMPM March/April 2021 Owen J. Dahl, MBA, FACHE, LSSMBB

    This article encourages a look at the basic business model of *your* practice environment using the SWOT approach: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.