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2024 Updates to American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology Codes for Oncology Panel Testing
Billing and reimbursement for medical services are codified by a code set, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), that is maintained and administered by the American Medical Association. CPT codes are considered level 1 Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System, which is overseen by the Centers for Medicare& Medicaid Services (https://www.cms.gov/medicare/coding-billing/healthcare-common-procedure-system, last accessed January 3, 2024). CPT codes are assigned categories. Category I CPT codes are procedures that are consistent with contemporary medical practice, are widely performed, and demonstrate clinical validity (https:...
Source: Journal of Molecular Diagnostics - January 24, 2024 Category: Pathology Authors: Victoria M. Pratt Tags: Spotlight Source Type: research

2024 Updates to American Medical Association ’s Current Procedural Terminology Codes for Oncology Panel Testing
Billing and reimbursement for medical services are codified by a code set, Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), that is maintained and administered by the American Medical Association (AMA). CPT codes are considered level 1 Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System which is overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (https://www.cms.gov/medicare/coding-billing/healthcare-common-procedure-system, last accessed 01/03/2024). CPT codes are assigned categories. Category I CPT codes are procedures that are consistent with contemporary medical practice, are widely performed, and demonstrate clinical validit...
Source: Journal of Molecular Diagnostics - January 24, 2024 Category: Pathology Authors: Victoria M. Pratt Tags: Spotlight Source Type: research

Improving Turnaround Time of Noncontrast CT Head Studies in Patients with Acute Stroke
In the era of exclusively digital imaging, workflow optimization is a key quality initiative in improving patient care [1]. Multiple obstacles remain in the radiologic workflow, many well documented in the literature, including service interruptions and system inefficiencies [2]. This situation has been compounded further in recent years by an increase in study volumes and a global decrease in the number of radiologists [3,4]. Triaging studies will continue to play an ever-larger role in developing a safe and effective workflow. (Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR)
Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR - January 5, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Mark S. Manganaro, Rahim F. Ismail, Derrek A. Schartz, Abhinav P. Patel, Denes Szekeres, Karen Fenicchia, Ben Wandtke, Akm A. Rahman, Henry Z. Wang Tags: Case Studies in Clinical Practice Management Source Type: research

ChatGPT and AI: How Does Health Care Handle 1.0?
Health care, including hospital medicine, isn’t exactly known as the professional land of early adopters—and for good reason. The regulations that govern the care of hospitalized patients can’t allow just every new application, website, or technology to get its hands on patient information. And hospitalists can’t just rely on Google searches to come up with the right approach to a particularly difficult diagnosis. But can it help? Can hospital medicine embrace the latest technology in real time? Well, ChatGPT is a test case. The large-language model-based chatbot has taken the world by storm over the past year and ...
Source: The Hospitalist - December 1, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Career Practice Management Technology Source Type: research

Applying Implementation Science Principles to Design the ACR Peer Learning Pathway: A Case Study
In 2000, the Institute of Medicine reported that errors remained a major threat to patients in US health systems and sought to “develop and deploy approaches to identify, learn from, and reduce diagnostic errors and near misses in clinical practice” [1]. Subsequently, formal quality programs began to form in all disciplines of health care, including the ACR’s score-based peer review (PR) system, RADPEER®. RADPEER req uires judging interpretations of prior studies by colleagues and scoring the degree of clinical significance for any diagnostic discrepancies. (Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR)
Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR - November 7, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Shlomit Goldberg-Stein, Mythreyi Bhargavan-Chatfield, Lane F. Donnelly, Dina Hernandez, Mara M. Kunst, Richard E. Sharpe, Jennifer Broder Tags: Case Studies in Clinical Practice Management Source Type: research

Secrets of Satisfied EHR Users
A report released earlier this year by KLAS Research identified more than 3,000 “highly satisfied” users of their hospital’s electronic health record (EHR), which has also been shown to be a contributor to job stress, dissatisfaction, and burnout for some clinicians.1,2 The report that teased out these highly satisfied clinicians, using survey data from December 2021 to December 2022 among 400,000 end users of the EHR in different countries, also highlighted several key traits distinguishing satisfied EHR users from those who are not. Ms. Beyer “We measured physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and al...
Source: The Hospitalist - November 1, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Business of Medicine Coding Practice Management Quality Improvement Technology Source Type: research

Improving Seizure Frequency Documentation and Classification
Discussion We demonstrated that by implementing an easy-to-use standardized EHR documentation tool, our documentation of critical metrics, as defined by the ELHS, improved dramatically. This shows that simple and practical interventions can substantially improve clinically meaningful documentation. (Source: Neurology Clinical Practice)
Source: Neurology Clinical Practice - October 19, 2023 Category: Neurology Authors: Nuthalapati, P., Thomas, L., Donahue, M. A., Moura, L. M. V. R., DeStefano, S., Simpson, J. R., Buchhalter, J., Fureman, B. E., Pellinen, J. Tags: All Health Services Research, Medical care, All Clinical Neurology, All Practice Management, All Epilepsy/Seizures Research Article Source Type: research

Successful Change Management Strategies for Improving Diabetes Care Delivery Among High-Performing Practices
CONCLUSIONS: Top-performing primary care practices identify a similar group of strategies as important for managing change during quality improvement activities. Practices involved in diabetes improvement activities, and perhaps other chronic conditions, should consider adopting these change management strategies.PMID:37748904 | PMC:PMC10519769 | DOI:10.1370/afm.3017 (Source: Annals of Family Medicine)
Source: Annals of Family Medicine - September 25, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Kevin A Peterson Leif I Solberg Caroline S Carlin Helen N Fu Rachel Jacobsen Milton Eder Source Type: research

Successful Change Management Strategies for Improving Diabetes Care Delivery Among High-Performing Practices
CONCLUSIONS: Top-performing primary care practices identify a similar group of strategies as important for managing change during quality improvement activities. Practices involved in diabetes improvement activities, and perhaps other chronic conditions, should consider adopting these change management strategies.PMID:37748904 | DOI:10.1370/afm.3017 (Source: Annals of Family Medicine)
Source: Annals of Family Medicine - September 25, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Kevin A Peterson Leif I Solberg Caroline S Carlin Helen N Fu Rachel Jacobsen Milton Eder Source Type: research

2024 Proposed Rule for the Quality Payment Program Released
See key changes for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System for the 2024 performance year as outlined in the proposed rule. (Source: The Rheumatologist)
Source: The Rheumatologist - August 17, 2023 Category: Rheumatology Authors: RISE Registry Team Tags: Practice Management Quality Assurance/Improvement Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) MIPS Value Pathways physician quality reporting Quality Payment Program (QPP) Source Type: research