Practice Management

Ekene Enemchukwu, MD, MPH, highlights her presentation, "Microaggressions 2.0 – How to survive and thrive," from the 2022 SUFU winter meeting.

Ransomware has never been a more serious threat for health care organizations, even small medical practices.

A physician’s goal is to care for patients, but a key part of being able to provide that care is the eternal quest for payment.

Most states require affidavits for malpractice cases to proceed.

“We want and need consistent buy-in and collaboration with those urologists who are mid and late career. I think that's a good start for anyone [who] wants to get involved,” says Randy Vince Jr, MD.

“If access to the Indiana pouch requires incision, code 51050 (cystolithotomy, cystotomy with removal of calculus, without vesical neck resection) or 51065 (cystotomy, with calculus basket extraction and/or ultrasonic or electrohydraulic fragmentation of ureteral calculus) would be more appropriate for removal of a stone from the Indiana pouch,” write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.

While AI is promising, there are potential legal and ethical challenges that must be addressed, according to the experts.

Pathologic tissue confirmation is usually the best practice.

Which option you select depends on your goals and what you want to cover.

Once thought of as a timepoint in the distant future, healthcare has already entered the artificial intelligence era and it will have a transformative impact across the spectrum of medical practice.

Although much of the discourse around telehealth rightfully focuses on its benefits, the potential drawbacks and limitations are often glossed over, particularly around provider burden.

3 steps to protect your practice from ransomware.

“One has to be very careful about purchasing any kind of technology — especially ones that the patient will pay cash out of their pocket for,” said urologist Clifford Gluck, MD. “That’s why it’s important to get the experience of others who have used the technology and to look at the literature to see what there is in terms of scientific evidence.”

“It's just working together as a team to recognize that this needs to be an ongoing active conversation about achieving autonomy in the operating room,” says Kate H. Kraft, MD.

Payer edits referencing ICD-10-CM guidelines such as “Excludes 1” are on the rise.

Pressure is ratcheting up on Congress to extend, and possibly make permanent, the eased access to telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries that has been in effect since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this interview, Polina X. Reyblat, MD, discusses the ways in which urologists can make their practices a more comfortable and open environment for patients of all different backgrounds to receive care.

Having a year-to-year strategy helps you achieve short- and long-term goals.

Think of the forgotten stent primarily as a patient safety issue, writes Robert A. Dowling, MD.

“Inappropriate patient interactions are more prevalent than we know, and they're oftentimes underreported,” said Caroline Lu, MD

Priya Padmanabhan, MD, MPH, shares the main takeaways from her discussion, “Advocacy and Health Policy Update: The Politics of Policy,” which she presented during the 2022 Society of Women in Urology Annual Clinical Mentoring Conference.

Anne M. Suskind, MD, highlights her presentation, “Mentorship as a Team Sport,” from the 2022 Society of Women in Urology Annual Clinical Mentoring Conference.

"The maximum simplified employee pension plan individual retirement account contribution was increased from $58,000 to $61,000, with maximum countable compensation increased to $305,000," writes Jeff Witz, CFP.

“I think now the government has realized…the work that’s involved in this procedure…[and] we’re now being reimbursed at an appropriate level,” says David M. Albala, MD.

“[MIPS represents] a significant paradigm shift away from the traditional fee-for-service model and toward the concept of value-based care," wrote Ridwan Alam, MD, MPH, and coauthors.

Increase in conversion factor and delay of sequestration are among changes.

“I think this really now suggests that Rezum is a financially viable procedure across these different treatment settings…the reimbursement now is really quite favorable,” says David M. Albala, MD.

Recent trends in medical audits and what physicians can expect with the CMS changes in 2021 to the documentation of E/M codes.

Here are some helpful hints for launching your physician mentor-mentee relationship.

"Be sure you are prescribing and dispensing the most clinically and cost-effective alternatives for your patients, and check that your information systems (electronic health records) are configured to display formulary information as you prescribe," advises Robert A. Dowling, MD.