Practice Management

“We really need to listen to what people care about and speak to that,” says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH.

Survey respondents spent an average of 1.77 hours per day outside of office hours completing EHR documentation.

“Burnout levels and staffing concerns overshadow other, more optimistic findings this year," reports Daniel S. Fitzgerald.

“We talked about patient buy in but family caregiver buy in is just as important, especially when we're talking about cancer,” says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP.

“We…just need to apply operational efficiencies that are utilized in other industries [to] health care,” says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH.

Diversification is key to mitigate impact of rising rates.

“Status quo EHR [and] status quo documenting [are] not going to give us the insights that we really need about how [patients are] doing now, and what are the opportunities we have to improve their care,” says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH.

“Clinically speaking, it really can harm patients to have gaps in both the data and their care,” says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH.

“If the service is indeed justified and supported, we would recommend checking with the payer prior to submitting code 0649T,” write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.

Urologists are the principal drivers of utilization for 14 drugs.

For their analysis, the study authors linked Medicare claims data to self-reported feelings of burnout and callousness among more than a thousand family physicians seeking to renew their board certifications.

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.