Your office manager has just handed you the “Summons and Complaint” that the county sheriff has served on your practice. You look at the name on the summons, and see that one of your longstanding patients is the plaintiff. You are shocked; you’ve never been sued in fifteen years of practice. What do you do […]

On Jan. 10, President Barack Obama signed into law the Strengthening Medicare And Repaying Taxpayers (SMART) Act, which is intended to help senior citizens and disabled persons obtain timely, clear and definitive information from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding Medicare payments made on their behalf that must be reimbursed, while at […]

We heard from one of our clients in California today that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Part B Carriers and some private players are not processing 2013 CPT codes for NCS correctly. Carriers are reimbursing for the new NCS codes (95907-95913), but the new systems in place are not setup properly to recognize […]

Our parent company, Cunningham Group, has put together a nice infographic……feel free to share this! Courtesy of: Cunningham Group

A bill in the Oregon State Legislature, proposed by Rep. Mitch Greenlick of Portland, would make cigarettes available by prescription only and classify them as a Schedule III controlled substance.  This means that they would be illegal to possess or distribute cigarettes…….without a doctor’s prescription.  We don’t think this has any chance of passing, but […]

We can really appreciate when technology does things for us that we never thought possible.  However, we do think there are times when technology can go a bit too far to deal with societal issues.  Those times however are often the most entertaining to dive into, so that’s what we’re going to discuss in today’s […]

There are no absolutes in the practice of medicine. Diagnoses can be wrong for a number of reasons, complications can arise that couldn’t reasonably be foreseen, infections can set in—a number of variables can cause treatments or procedures to not render the desired results. Some situations are simply unavoidable; others should never occur. So physicians […]

Was your New Year’s Resolution to achieve a better work-life balance? In this fast-paced, unrelenting work world of ours, it seems that we are all striving for work-life balance –yet very few of us have figured it out. I just read a great article about a pediatric practice in Mission Viejo, CA where all of […]