Practice Management

In this latest installment of "Coding Q&A," Ray Painter, MD, and Mark Painter also discuss compensation plans and answer a question regarding CPT 76942 and 50200.

No one can predict with any great certainty the financial outlook for 2016, especially with the national elections looming in November. Nevertheless, certain money management strategies make sense every year.

In this article, Robert A. Dowling, MD, addresses common questions and answers on patient access to protected health information-recently released by the government-to help your office manage this common task in a compliant fashion.

Dawn Collins, JD, also writes about a lawsuit in which a patient sued over an alleged failure to diagnose Fournier's gangrene.

The federal government’s aggressive timeline for full Stage 3 implementation of meaningful use in 2018 seemed to derail on Jan. 11 when Acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt declared that the program would come to an end this year. Now that the news has settled, urologists are among those who think meaningful use is very much alive, but evolving, and urologists and other physicians should not change EHR course, just yet.

There are several very detailed steps that we will combine into 11 separate functions that have to be performed in a prompt and accurate fashion in order to submit a clean claim and be paid in a timely fashion.

When Dr. Painter started practice during the early 1970s in a small town in western Colorado, the entire billing and collections process was much simpler.

Check out the latest new products. From Single-use ureteroscope addresses shortcomings of reusable scopes, to an App that helps IC, chronic prostatitis patients choose the right foods and much more.

Henry Rosevear, MD, recently read what he felt was 2015's best article on the business of health care.

The HHS Office of the Inspector General work plan for fiscal year 2016 includes a number of topics of interest to urologists, which is my focus in this article.

In this "Coding Q&A" column, the Painters also the explain difference between CPT codes 74420 and 74450.

Other pipeline products discussed in this article include an immunotherapy for metastatic bladder cancer, a treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms of BPH, and an investigational clear cell renal cell carcinoma treatment.

The 529 plan, named after the section of the Internal Revenue Code authorizing it, allows you to remove wealth from your estate while you steadily accumulate assets to help educate children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews-and even yourself if you're planning to go back to college.

The State of the Specialty survey, now in its tenth year, takes the pulse of urologists’ current challenges, business and clinical practices, satisfaction, and opinions on a variety of hot-button topics. I

Learn more about these products as well as a powered exam table and an app that measures, monitors, and helps improve fertility in men.

Here are the highlights of the final rule for Medicare Part B payment for calendar year 2016 of greatest interest to urologists.

The defendants did not dispute the patient's claims but did question the severity and frequency of her complaints and whether they related to the original operation.

In this final installment in a series on privacy and security concerns, I will discuss issues related to secondary use of data derived from those primary systems.

today’s urologist has to stay current with new technology and care models and cater to patients who seek more knowledge and participation in their care. In part two of this two-part article, I will discuss how these practices are both good for business and for improving the quality of the care you provide.

Successful estate planning generally involves passing on your assets to your heirs at a low tax cost; one way of accomplishing this goal is through use of bypass trusts.

Other pipeline products discussed in this article include agents for urinary catheter blockage, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, and overactive bladder.

The implementation of ICD-10 has all of us reevaluating diagnosis coding.

In this installment in a series on privacy and information security concerns, I will discuss steps you can take to safeguard your patients’ personal information.

Other products highlighted in this slideshow include a trial system for incontinence therapy, a compact catheter, a wearable digital technology solution for continence care assessment and management, and laser fiber and sheath system.

As we approach the end of the year, the tax moves that you make-or don’t make-can have a significant impact on your 2015 tax return.

A prostate cancer vaccine and an infertility diagnostic tool are among the other pipeline products discussed in this round-up.

The time has arrived for all urologists to become involved in the business side of their practice.

In this case, the man currently has no evidence of metastatic disease or other long-term injury from his claimed negligence that the physicians allowed the cancer to become extracapsular during the 6 months of following his PSA levels.

In our review of hundreds of charts from multiple EHR systems, several frequently made errors emerged, and for this article, we will discuss seven common mistakes end how to avoid them.

In this article and several to follow, I will discuss privacy and information security concerns and what you can do to protect your patients’ data.