ICD10monitor September 25, 2023
Just as the role of physician advisors has come to the forefront of the healthcare world over the last decade and a half, so too has the subset of pediatric physician advisors in recent years.
Their expanding ranks and critical developments nationwide affecting hospital pediatric units and availability of pediatric services now makes discussion about the importance and future of the role unavoidable.
Pediatric services have never been considered financially impactful. Without routine, profitable, diagnostic and preventative procedures like colonoscopies and cardiac catheterizations, as in the adult population, and the harsh truth that Medicaid and managed Medicaid plans notoriously pay pennies on the dollar for reimbursement of services, the overarching understanding has been that pediatric cost of care will essentially...