The Primary Care Provider's Guide to Compensation and Quality

by Buppert, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780763725037
• ISBN10: 076372503X
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

St. John's College, Annapolis, MD. Provides advice on growing patient enrollment in managed care health plans, performance evaluations by outside agencies, and dramatic increase in billing audits. CD-ROM includes customizable forms. Wire-spiral binding. System requirements: Windows 3.x, 95/98. DNLM: Quality Assurance, Health Care--methods.

Author Biography

Carolyn Buppert serves as Director of Student Health at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Measuring performance in primary care	p. 1
Systems for meeting benchmarks for screening and health maintenance	p. 21
Measuring outcomes in primary care	p. 123
Systems for measuring outcomes at the practice level	p. 129
Systems for tracking functional status	p. 139
Systems for measuring and tracking patient satisfaction	p. 149
Malpractice : the ultimate failure in quality	p. 211
Systems for avoiding malpractice	p. 223
Reimbursement for primary care	p. 245
What is fraud and abuse in billing?	p. 255
Systems for complying with requirements of Medicare and other payers	p. 269
How to contract with managed care organizations	p. 357
How to maximize reimbursement	p. 371
Checklist documentation forms	p. 377
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