Key Takeaways to Navigate IPPE and Medicare Wellness Visit Codes Table of Contents Quick, What is the Initial Preventative Physical Examination (IPPE) Exam? At its core, the Initial Preventative Physical Examination, or IPPE, is a review of all medical and social health history with additional preventive services and healthcare education. However, the IPPE does not […]
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Key Takeaways on the Benefits of Telepsychiatry Concern for patient mental health is growing as the pandemic continues, but telepsychiatry provides a way to access and treat patients from a safe distance. What is Telepsychiatry? Telehealth, or telemedicine allows for providers to connect with patients at a distance often through the use of mobile technology.
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Key Takeaways to Choose the Best Behavioral Healthcare Program In light of the global pandemic, mental health has been a growing concern for doctors and patients everywhere. With rising stress, anxiety, and isolation, behavioral health services are more important now than ever. What Is a Behavioral Healthcare Program? Behavioral health, sometimes referred to as mental
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Key Takeaways to Promote Your Rural Healthcare Clinic Does your community fully utilize your clinic and its services? Rural Healthcare Clinics (RHCs) provide excellent service to their communities, but may struggle with patient outreach due to location, a dispersed patient population, and a lack of general marketing resources. However, there are many ways to promote
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Key Takeaways to Understand Medicare Split Claim Billing No one claims coding and billing is easy. Beyond CPTs, ICDs, and modifiers, coding delves into employment, ownership of equipment, location of services, and more. This post focuses on a specialty situation, “Split-Claim Billing”, that can impact how a claim is billed. Most claims are comprised of
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Key Takeaways on Medicare Swing Beds for Rural Communities What Is A Swing Bed? A swing bed is a physical hospital bed that can be used for two purposes – acute and post-acute care. The purpose is to allow patients in rural communities to receive quality post-acute care within their community. Prior to Medicare’s swing
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Key Takeaways to Understand What an RHC Is An RHC, or Rural Health Clinic, is a rurally located medical clinic providing healthcare services to patients in underserved areas. Founded in 1977, the RHC program incentivizes physicians to provide primary care for rural residents while also encouraging the use of mid-level providers. RHCs go through a
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Key Takeaways to Understand QPP and MIPS What is the Quality Payment Program (QPP)? The Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) was signed into law with bipartisan support on April 16, 2015 and went into effect on January 1, 2017. The law does many things but most importantly it establishes a new
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