Pediatric rashes are a common complaint, and knowing the difference between them can save time, stress, and agony. Here are a series of resources to help you differentiate between the rashes most commonly seen. DISEASE SEASON PROGRESSION MORPHOLOGY DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATED FINDINGS TREATMENT Measles/Rubeola paramyxovirus Winter to Spring Incubation: 1-2 weeks Communicability: 4 days before and …
Emergency departments can be a stressful place, both for patient’s and healthcare providers. Patient’s are often scared, in pain or other distress, and anxious about what is happening to them, and what is about to happen to them. As Providers, we are often caring for multiple sick and/or injured patients who all want one-on-one attention, constant interruption by nurses and other staff, plus keeping things like patient satisfaction and turn-around times in the back of our minds so that we can satisfy administration’s expectation of us. This mixture can easily lead to dissatisfaction by both patients and Providers, which is completely counter to the reasons many of us went into the practice of Emergency Medicine in the first place. It doesn’t have to be like this, and I can show you some ways to help improve everyone’s experience in the ER.
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Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners – anyone who is considered a provider in healthcare, is now having their own quality measures applied to their care delivery. As part of the permanent “Doc Fix” the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was passed in 2015. CHIP is the Children’s Health Insurance Plan that provides matching federal payments to state-funded children’s insurance programs. MACRA is designed to shift the healthcare fee-for-service model of payments to the value-based payment (quality) payment model through Merit-based Incentive Programs (MIPs), which are designed to focus on quality measures at the provider level. Each specialty will have different requirements. The intent of these quality measures is aimed at reducing cost, but their application to current medical standards is debatable.
In the previous blog we went over how medicare, RVU’s and SGR have led us to where we are headed as you will read below.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare” was passed in 2010 and was the first major overhaul to our nation’s reimbursement system since the introduction of Medicare in 1966. The intentions of the ACA were to create a system that would insure healthcare for everyone in the United States, and to reduce the cost of that insurance. The challenge with this law was to find a way to provide reduced cost coverage for patients, while providing expanded coverage at the same time.
