The Healthcare Reform Learning Curve: 8 Ways to Get Ahead

In a Medscape Business of Medicine article, Elizabeth Woodcock, president of Woodcock & Associates, discusses eight ways in which medical practices can get ahead of the healthcare reform learning curve.

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The eight ways are:

 

1. Automate patient reminders — and send them twice.
2. Review all your patients’ complaints — not just today’s complaint.
3. Use your electronic health record patient registry.
4. Clarify who will do what when you refer a patient.
5. See patients with the same issues as a group.
6. Offer team-based care.
7. Be sure you code for after-hours work.
8. Harvest the business intelligence in your computers.

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