Implementation of telehealth at outpatient pediatric offices prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was limited due to a number of factors. These factors included: limited insurance coverage, limited pool of patients willing to pay out of pocket for telehealth services, complexity and cost of starting a telehealth operation. There was much investment into telehealth companies…
As we start a new year, the role of the front desk team members is even more important to ensure a pediatric practice has the most current insurance information. While providing monitoring, feedback and oversight of the front desk team performance is always important, this is most important in January due to the change in…
Summary of PediatricXpress EHR ONC Certification The pediatricXpress EHR system (version 20) by PhysicianXpress, Inc. received an enhanced Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) certification on December 10, 2020. The current ONC certification for PediatricXpress includes 36 certification criteria as well certification on eight (8), Pediatric-focused, Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs). Currently, the pediatricXpress system is…
While the total impact of the COVID-19 pandemic varied by pediatric practice, each pediatric practice that we work with was able to operate through the year. Operating a pediatric practice in 2020 required pediatric practice owners and leaders to be flexible, creative, and resilient during a year of many unknowns without a ‘road map’ of…
On December 1, 2020, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Health IT sponsored a conference titled “Accelerating APIs in Healthcare: A Year in Review and Momentum for 2021”. The ONC develops the HealthIT policy and road map for the future of the United States. When developing the HealthIT road map, the leaders…
Early Monday morning, November 9th, Pfizer announced some positive results regarding their COVID-19 Vaccine they are developing with BioNTech. This vaccine candidate is a two-dose series. The phase III clinical trials involved over 40,000 patients. There is some data in the press release that based on exposing patients who received the vaccine to…
The use of scoring tools in Pediatrics helps the Pediatrician or Pediatric provider in making a more informed assessment of the child. While using a scoring tool is extra work for the pediatric provider, in many cases, the payer will reimburse for the associated scoring tools CPT codes when utilized for appropriate pediatric patient…
It has been about seven months since the COVID-19 pandemic started in the United States. The early stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic started as a state of emergency with stay at home orders by the government. The combined stay and home orders created an environment where children and parents were not engaging…
The approach for evaluating an EHR for a Pediatric practice can vary depending on a few factors. For instance, a Pediatric Super group with over 50 Pediatricians will have different on-site resources such as a large IT team, Revenue Cycle Management and Admin team. This blog article is focused on factors to consider for a…
On March 9th, 2020, the Health and Human Services (HHS) released a press bulletin related to the 21st Century Cures Act for interoperability between Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems as well as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This work by the ONC is a step forward to further enhance patient ability to have their data…
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