OBJECTIVE To examine the financial impact of electronic health record (EHR) implementation on ambulatory practices. METHODS We tracked the practice productivity (ie, number of patient visits) and reimbursement of 30 ambulatory practices for 2 years after EHR implementation and compared each practice to their pre-EHR implementation baseline. RESULTS Reimbursements significantly increased aft...

Teledermatology has been leveraged during the COVID-19 pandemic as a means of adopting novel ways to treat patients while reducing risk viral transmission. Although teledermatology offers benefits related patient convenience and improved access care, key challenges in areas reimbursement, licensure, diagnostic accuracy remain. In this commentary, we discuss these three obstacles potential solut...

BACKGROUND A previous study revealed that patients perceived physician reimbursement to be much higher than current Medicare schedules for hip and knee replacement. The purpose of this study was to evaluate patient perception of surgeon reimbursement for total shoulder replacement (TSA) and rotator cuff repair (RCR). METHODS The study surveyed 250 patients. Patients were asked what they belie...

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AIM To evaluate the effects of the change in the diagnosis-related group (DRG) system on patient morbidity and hospital financial performance in the Romanian public health care system. METHODS Three variables were assessed before and after the classification switch in July 2007: clinical outcomes, the case mix index, and hospital budgets, using the database of the National School of Public He...

The changes in health care reimbursement have the potential to affect the availability of quality medical physicist service in patient care. A survey was conducted by the AAPM Professional Council and the ACMP to collect cost information for special medical physics consultation, CPT4-77370 and continuing medical physics, CPT4-77336. The data collected from the survey was compared to current rei...

• Treatment burden can be measured by analyzing patients’ health care visits Electronic Health Record-reimbursement data are useful to measure treatment Queries and syntaxes require cooperation between doctors analysts differs in apparently similar hematological diseases multiple myeloma is higher than chronic lymphoid leukemia Multiple Myeloma (MM) an incurable plasma cell malignancy with inte...

There is great allure in the concept of using qualified health care providers to assist radiologists and radiation oncologists, increasing efficiency and possibly even improving patient care delivery. However, physician services are most commonly reimbursed under a system that is resource based, and the physician work and practice expense components of reimbursement for existing procedure codes...

BACKGROUND Reimbursement systems provide incentives to health care providers and may drive physician behaviour. This review assesses the impact of reimbursement system on socioeconomic and racial inequalities in access, utilization and quality of primary care. METHODS A systematic search was performed in Web of Science and PubMed for English language studies published between 1980 and 2013, s...

This paper develops a model in which physicians choose the level of services to be provided to their patients. We show that if physicians undervalue benefits to patients relative to hospital profits, prospective payment, a system in which hospitals receive a payment dependent on the diagnosis-related group within which a patient falls, can lead to too few services being provided. In contrast, a...