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Friday, February 5, 2021

NextGen® Advisors Podcast – COVID-19: New Variants and Their Implications

In this podcast, the NextGen Advisors discuss the status of vaccination campaigns, the implications of these new variants on efforts to control the pandemic and how pharmaceutical companies and researchers are responding to this challenge.

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Congress Considers the Future of Telehealth

The rapid expansion in telehealth services was driven both by the necessity of virtual care during the pandemic and by the temporary relaxing of decades-old regulations. For Congress, the job now is to determine what telehealth laws should look like after the pandemic ends and the temporary waivers subside.

Friday, August 28, 2020

NextGen® Advisors Podcast – Significant Potential Changes in the Proposed CMS 2021 Fee Schedule

In this episode, the NextGen® Advisors are joined by government affairs advisor, Chris Emper to discuss the potential game-changing impact of CMS’s proposed 2021 Physician Fee Schedule.

Monday, August 31, 2020

Integrated Care – Coming of Age After 300 Years... Part II of II

A recent original research article and editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine addresses the factors influencing physician practices adoption of behavioral health integration in the United States.

Friday, March 20, 2020

Deploying a Video Visit Strategy to Mitigate the Spread of Coronavirus

In response to the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the United States, many ambulatory practices are recognizing video visits as a crucial method to protect health care providers and patients and to flatten the curve of community infection.

Monday, February 22, 2021

NextGen® Advisors Podcast – Finding the Silver Linings from the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic discussion has often covered the implications and impact of this devastating pandemic.

Thursday, February 11, 2021

How Will We Address New COVID-19 Variants?

Just as the global vaccination campaign is ramping up, with healthcare providers and state agencies wrestling with the complexity of inoculating millions of citizens, new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are being identified by researchers which may require vaccine developers to update their vaccines periodically.

Thursday, February 4, 2021

How Orthopedic Practices Can Stay on a Steady Path as COVID-19 Continues

Orthopedic practice remains hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The health crisis continues to affect patient-to-provider relationships and put pressure on practices to expand reach, enhance the patient experience, and improve operations and efficiency.

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Ways to Shift Your Patients to Telehealth

If your practice launched telehealth services in recent months, it’s tempting to think, “If I build it, they will come.” However, successful telemedicine implementation requires outreach, telehealth education, and encouragement to ensure patients feel comfortable to embrace virtual visits.

Thursday, September 10, 2020

7 Tips to Create a Successful Telehealth Practice

In this blog, we prepared 7 practical suggestions that will help providers feel more comfortable with virtual visits, which will result in patients feeling more at ease using the technology.

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Telehealth EHR Integration: 4 Keys to a Successful Practice

Telemedicine integration yields many benefits that support quality care coordination. More than a buzz word, it’s the embodiment of efficiency in the new era of healthcare.

Thursday, August 27, 2020

CMS Moving Forward with Major Physician Office Visit Reforms in 2021

In a recent blog post, we offered five key takeaways from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) new 1,300-page proposed 2021 Medicare physician payment rule. Since the release of that rule a few weeks ago, much of our industry’s attention has been focused on the telehealth policy proposals, and more specifically, on which COVID-19 emergency telehealth policies CMS plans to make permanent after the emergency ends.

Friday, January 29, 2021

Stay Open With Virtual Care - How to Transition to a Virtual Medical Practice

There is very little we can take for granted these days. In the spirit of planning for the worst and hoping for the best, let’s review the workflow for a completely virtual medical practice.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

How to Move Healthcare Forward by Looking Back

With our recent blogs on August 3 and August 17 focused on innovative care models, it seems appropriate to pause and review the historical context that served as the foundation for many current innovative efforts. While the focus of today’s article is primary care, many of the learnings have broad applicability.

Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Men's Mental Health: We Treat Just the Tip of the Iceberg

June is men’s health month and this year as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, more than ever there is a compelling need to focus on male patients’ overall health with emphasis on their mental health as a key to their wellbeing.

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Keys to Sustainable Telehealth Post COVID-19

As we've listened to providers describe their reactions to this pandemic, telehealth continues to be a pervasive theme at the foundation of their response.

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Medicare Expands Telehealth Services to Community Health Centers Under CARES Act

As required by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, on April 17, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new guidance authorizing community health centers to furnish telehealth services to Medicare beneficiaries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

How Do You Prepare Your Patients for a Productive Virtual Visit?

The rush to adopt telehealth may have led your practice to hit the ground running. The following tactics for transitioning your patients to telemedicine can help you achieve a virtual patient visit that supports and even strengthens your continuity of care.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Improve Your “Webside Manner” Through New Telehealth Training Video

To help providers successfully implement virtual visits, it is important to follow a few key steps to ensure you and the patient have the best possible telehealth experience.

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Telehealth Tools to Help Your Practice Evolve

COVID-19 triggered the rapid expansion of telehealth, and from now on, traditional patient/provider relationships will never be the same. Virtual visits increase safety for patients, providers, and staff and help maintain regular appointments.

Monday, August 10, 2020

5 Key Takeaways from Medicare’s New 1,300 Page Physician Payment Regulation

On August 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule. The 1,353-page rule proposes updates that would take effect on January 1, 2021 for Medicare’s physician payment system, Quality Payment Program, Shared Savings Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program, telehealth services program, and more. This year’s rule was highly anticipated by industry stakeholders because it includes important COVID-19 updates impacting both the current public health emergency and the permanent Medicare program.

Monday, April 6, 2020

Crisis at the Doctor's Office

Practice owners and administrators face difficult questions and must make painful decisions: How much cash do we have on hand? How fast can we get a business loan? Do we need to furlough or lay off employees?

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

How to Get the Most Out of Your Next Healthcare Consulting Engagement, Part I

The past several decades saw enormous growth in management consulting services supporting the healthcare industry to develop strategies, manage change and address a myriad of industry-specific complex problems. So how do provider organizations ensure they gain the greatest benefit from engaging a management consultant?

Thursday, May 14, 2020

In the Midst of Crisis, What Have We Learned About Telehealth?

For many medical providers, myself included, the past few weeks have been a sudden but deep dive into a schedule chock-full of virtual visits. What has this trial by fire taught us?

Monday, September 14, 2020

Congress Working to Avoid a Pre-election Shutdown and Pass More COVID-19 Aid

Today, lawmakers return to Washington, D.C. with only 50 days remaining until election day on November 3. Aside from engaging in a heavy dose of election-year politics, members of Congress should be busy trying to pass two major pieces of legislation in the coming weeks.

Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Organizational Resilience in the Midst of a Pandemic

In a matter of weeks, practices have been thrust into a new reality that has required significant shifts in the way care is delivered and the business of health care is conducted.

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

CMS Increases Payment for Phone Visits, First Insurer Makes COVID-19 Telehealth Changes Permanent 

As physicians and patients continue to turn towards virtual visits during the COVID-19 pandemic, both the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and commercial payers continue to tweak their telehealth regulations and policies to support this transition.

Monday, July 27, 2020

The Growing Role of Pharmacists in the Practice of the Future

Considering the significant percent of Americans taking medications, many as part of complex regimens, it is not surprising that the estimated annual cost of drug-related morbidity and mortality resulting from nonoptimized medication therapy is $528.4 billion, which is equivalent to 16 percent of total U.S. health care expenditures in 2016.

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Can Remote Patient Monitoring Improve Clinical Outcomes From Afar?

The global digital patient monitoring devices market was estimated at almost $63 billion in 2020 and is expected to expand due to the increased need. To meet this growing demand, NextGen® Healthcare, in partnership with health data experts at Validic, has introduced a flexible and modular Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) solution.