While healthcare funding and new regulations continue to evolve, there can often be confusion about various programs for federally funded centers on how these programs intersect. For safety-net providers like Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and publicly funded family planning clinics, plans like the 340B drug pricing program are intended to stretch scarce federal resources […]
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If you are currently billing to Medicaid or Medicare, you are likely familiar with the Prospective Payment System (PPS) outlined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). For Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) or those looking to get Health Center designation, PPS rates are updated yearly and the system is changed more frequently […]
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What is workflow and why should you care? Over the past few years, public health agencies have seen ongoing reduction in funding while their operational costs keep going up. Sure, lobbying and educating legislators is an important part of public health agency leadership role. However, in current national environment, at best one can hope to […]
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First, let’s be clear about credentialing. You do not credential facilities, you credential providers, but it does benefit the facility in terms of revenue and reputation. But let’s face it, many health departments are not billing as much or as efficiently as they should be. Often times, physicians, especially new physicians, are only partially credentialed, […]
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Remember the eye exams for color blindness? Where a series of dots in various colors hide a number or a shape? At first it may be hard to see, but once you identify the number, it becomes quite easy to focus on it. Well with the public health goals it is quite similar. Having achieved […]
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