Independent Primary Care Blog

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History of patient charting

By Damien Neuman

By the early nineteenth century, a predecessor of contemporary medical records had arisen in Paris and Berlin. In the nineteenth century, prominent teaching hospitals in the United States ...

June 3rd

The history of value-based care

By Sam Peirce

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) defines value-based care as those programs that “reward health care providers with incentive payments for the quality of care they ...

June 3rd

MIPS v. APMs

By Nick Dealtry

APM stands for Alternative Payment Model, while MIPS stands for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System. The verification process for health care providers should begin this year, and the ...

June 2nd

What is a Clinical Care Team?

By Tyler Comstock

The definition of a clinical care team is: A clinical care team for a given patient consists of the health professionals—physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, other registered ...

June 1st

Reducing billing and collection errors

By Tyler Comstock

Mistakes in billing for patient fees can be costly for your independent practice, in many ways. Constantly having to correct those errors wastes your staff’s time and, of course, billing ...

May 1st