Modern Healthcare August 26, 2017
Cindy Fisher has been busy the past few months. She has been in and out of industry conferences and webinars and spends hours reading posts online as she works to get a medical practice ready to operate under the new reimbursement approach under Medicare. The change represents the first comprehensive update to the federal health program in decades.
“I have been attending everything that’s available to me and spend weekends catching up on my actual job,” said Fisher, a practice administrator at a two-provider urology practice in Pennsylvania. “I’m really worried I don’t have everything I need in place.”
She isn’t alone. More than halfway through the first year of the rollout of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act,...