Stay-at-home orders and mandates to delay elective procedures have significantly reduced patient volume at your practice. To justify paying your staff, you need to quickly find ways for them to remain productive during COVID-19. Between pandemic stress and less work to do, your staff could easily settle into an unproductive rut. But there are ways […]

Making the mistake of employing an excluded physician, nurse, nonphysician provider or administrator will lead to you facing thousands in civil money penalties — not to mention the money you’ll lose for services you’ve provided that can never be billed. Thinking that this can’t affect your practice is a HUGE mistake. In fact, the Office […]

Set up the wrong employment relationship with your nonphysician practitioners (NPPs), and you’ll forfeit the ability to bill their services incident-to your physicians and miss out on an additional 15% of their reimbursement. Or worse, you could bill incident-to incorrectly and get targeted for an audit and be required to pay back all the reimbursement […]

Previously scheduled to take effect Feb. 18, the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records final rule has now been put off until March 21. This means you won’t have access to easier consent requirements for sharing information with your patients’ other providers, among other benefits, for an extra month. In a Jan. 20 memorandum, […]

Is there a difference between the supervising and collaborating physicians? Yes, there is a huge difference. The supervising physician has got to be where you can pull them in and grab ahold of them. This would be whoever is in the clinic that day. The collaborating physician would be the physician who set up the […]