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How to use social media to boost your practice
If you still think of social media as just a way to advertise your practice, you need to think again. Now allergy practices are using social media to engage, e…
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Do patient portals work for allergy practices?
It’s time for a patient portal check-in! In a recent survey of medical practice executives by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA), 90% of res…
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Is your communication with patients HIPAA-compliant?
Increasingly, patients are looking for fast, easy ways to communicate with their allergists – and for their allergists to communicate with them. Email, t…
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Review your financial data before it becomes public
Did you or your practice receive payments from drug companies, device manufacturers or group purchasing organizations in 2017? These payments may have been for…
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Your practice can save time and money
As part of its Administrative Simplification Rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) established standards to streamline communications be…
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Want hands-on practice management advice?
You asked, and the College delivered! We’ve got real-world practice management advice packaged in bite-sized chunks that can be quickly implemented in yo…
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What you need to know now about new Medicare cards
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is removing Social Security Numbers (SSN) from Medicare cards to prevent fraud and fight identity theft.…
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How do you track practice financial performance? Part 3
This is the third and final article in our series on tracking practice financial performance. Today’s focus is on key metrics for provider performa…
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How do you track practice financial performance? Part 2
This is the second article in our series on tracking practice financial performance, and today we’re focusing on practice efficiency and revenue collection met…
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How do you track practice financial performance? Part 1
Allergy practices now have more performance data than ever before. In addition to the reports from EHRs, practice management systems, and/or patient surveys th…
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When should you send a patient to collections?
Previous practice excellence articles from the College have addressed collecting payment at the time of service and the importance of improving customer servic…
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Help for prior authorizations is here
Prior authorizations are an increasing burden on medical practices – and allergy practices are no exception. According to a recent survey by the AMA, med…
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Are you informed about informed consent?
Updated February 23, 2018You know informed consent is a basic principle of health care and your practice should take it seriously. But do you know exactly what…
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Protect your practice against cyber risk
Recent high-profile cyberattacks have affected health care organizations worldwide, reminding allergy practices that they need to be especially vigilant in saf…
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From independent to employed: One allergist’s journey
Kira Geraci-Ciardullo, MD, FACAAI, a practicing allergist in New York, recently made a big move, and it’s one you may have thought about yourself. After …
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CMS Open Payments Program posts 2016 financial data
Did you or your practice receive payments from drug companies, device manufacturers or group purchasing organizations in 2016? These payments may have been for…
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Take the pulse of your practice team culture
Your College’s Practice Management Committee’s goal is to help you manage your practice. When we find tools that we deem useful, we want to pass th…
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Medicare is Removing Social Security Numbers From Medicare Cards
保护老年人识别盗窃和保存taxpayer dollars, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be replacing the Social Securi…
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Update your fee schedule regularly to maximize revenue
If you haven’t reviewed and updated your fee schedule in the past year, you might be leaving revenue on the table. Make sure you get paid fairly for the …
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2017 Medscape Allergist Compensation Report
It’s that time of year again – the results of the Medscape Allergist Compensation Report are here. Allergists generally fared much better than last…