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Mark Vaughan, M.D.
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THE 2024 Primary Care Code
Most group practices will add thousands in revenue monthly with the G2211 code. Listen for details. Here is a great link from the AAFP.
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11 to 20 Provider CCM Chronic Condition Care Plan and Management Call Templates
A collection of 29 care plan templates and 29 monthly care management phone call scripts for the most common chronic conditions in Medicare patients. Includes license for a single provider. The link for downloading the complete document and another link for viewing instructional videos will appear once payment is completed.
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The Formula
RPM patients need to take measurements 16 days per month. Following The Formula can help your RPM coordinator keep patients on track throughout the month so you don’t end up with too few days. I have daily calls made to any patients who do not have the minimum number of days according to The Formula: (date/2) + 1. It is appropriate to start anytime after the first week of the month.
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Increased Medicare CCM Payments
Increased Medicare CCM Payments
Medicare raised CCM payments in 2022.
Medicare now pays $56.74 – $80.31 to set up CCM (99453)
Medicare now pays $56 – $76 monthly per completed CCM service
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Qardio Cellular
Qardio has come back with a cellular blood pressure monitor option. This is worth look at for blood pressure Remote Patient Monitoring.
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Lower is Better
Dr Tom Frieden, former director of CDC, referred to the Final Report of a Trial of Intensive versus Standard Blood-Pressure Control, published in May in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Conclusions:”Among patients who were at increased cardiovascular risk, targeting a systolic blood pressure of less than 120 mm Hg resulted in lower rates of major adverse cardiovascular events and lower…
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More Healthmote Experience
Healthmote continues to lend itself to a growth of patients using RPM. It is easier to set up than Qardio, and we have found that easily more than twice the number of Medicare patients can use the simple one-button Healthmote device compared to Qardio. Send your CCM and RPM questions to mark(at)vaughanmd.com. Emails may not receive a reply, but answers to the most popular questions will be…
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Healthmote RPM
I am excited to tell you about both of our new sponsors. You can learn more about their products by clicking on the Foracare and Healthmote links. Foracare is covered in an earlier dedicated episode. Most of this episode describes the benefits and features of the Healthmote Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) system. I also give some thoughts regarding the structure of staffing for RPM coverage.
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Medicare 2021 RPM Update
Medicare 2021 RPM Update
Link to Official CMS Policy
There are a couple updates to RPM rules which provide significant clarification to time necessary for RPM monthly management and the nature of communication satisfying the “interactive communication” requirement.
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ForaCare D40g I am sharing my initial thoughts on the ForaCare D40g cellular (3G) BP monitor and glucometer. It is ideally suited for Remote Patient Monitoring.
#fora#fora d40#fora d40g#foracare#foracare d40#foracare d40g#remote blood pressure monitoring#remote patient monitoring#rpm
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Suicide A Right-to-Die (or Physician-Assisted Suicide) bill sits on the California Governor's desk as an LA doctor is on trial for murder.
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Starting Practice How does one start a medical practice? This question and more from Periscope are answered in this episode. See medicallyspeakingradio.com
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Will Wait The "female Viagra" fibanserin is discussed along with Periscope viewer comments and questions.
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Parenting Parenting questions from Periscope are answered and Dr. Vaughan speaks about Overcoming Emotional Trauma by Travis Lloyd.
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The Resistance Antibiotic resistance is continually increasing. Hear how you can be a part of the solution. Listener questions about subarachnoid hemorrhage and federal medical record rules are also discussed. Comments from live listening viewers come through Periscope.
#antibiotic#bleed#brain#ehr#electronic#emr#federal rules#hemorrhage#medical record#resistance#subarachnoid
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Zombie Brain-Eating Amoeba We discuss the brain-eating amoeba (Naeglaria fowleri) which killed two people in Louisiana this month. The amoeba is almost uniformly fatal and infects victims when contaminated fresh water enters their nose.
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Door Knob Medicine Good medical care is more than just correctly diagnosing and prescribing medical treatment. We discuss the need for medical care providers to adequately connect and communicate with patients in the process of diagnosing and treating.
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