Practice Management

“We’re finally at a place where 51% of med school students are women. However, 40% of women physicians are either quitting or going part time within 6 years of finishing training. That’s a problem,” says Chang.

Medicare Part D data reveal how urology compares with other specialties.

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“Things we have control over are ourselves, our care team, and to some extent, our care model,” said Sarah Candler, MD.

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"There is no substitute for face-to-face communication, intergenerational interactions, and chance encounters with colleagues that occur at an in-person meeting," writes Adele M. Caruso, DNP, CRNP, FAANP.

"This non face-to-face care coordination done 'incident to' to the provider...is reimbursable through chronic care management codes," says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH.

“This is a very dangerous situation for medical device companies who want to keep their product and patients safe and reduce risk to their business and brand,” the report warns.

“We really need to listen to what people care about and speak to that,” says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH.

Survey respondents spent an average of 1.77 hours per day outside of office hours completing EHR documentation.

“Burnout levels and staffing concerns overshadow other, more optimistic findings this year," reports Daniel S. Fitzgerald.

“We talked about patient buy in but family caregiver buy in is just as important, especially when we're talking about cancer,” says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP.

“We…just need to apply operational efficiencies that are utilized in other industries [to] health care,” says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH.

Diversification is key to mitigate impact of rising rates.

“Status quo EHR [and] status quo documenting [are] not going to give us the insights that we really need about how [patients are] doing now, and what are the opportunities we have to improve their care,” says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH.

“Clinically speaking, it really can harm patients to have gaps in both the data and their care,” says Shirley Lee, CRNP-FNP, MPH.

“If the service is indeed justified and supported, we would recommend checking with the payer prior to submitting code 0649T,” write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.

Urologists are the principal drivers of utilization for 14 drugs.

For their analysis, the study authors linked Medicare claims data to self-reported feelings of burnout and callousness among more than a thousand family physicians seeking to renew their board certifications.

Ekene Enemchukwu, MD, MPH, highlights her presentation, "Microaggressions 2.0 – How to survive and thrive," from the 2022 SUFU winter meeting.

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A physician’s goal is to care for patients, but a key part of being able to provide that care is the eternal quest for payment.

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“We want and need consistent buy-in and collaboration with those urologists who are mid and late career. I think that's a good start for anyone [who] wants to get involved,” says Randy Vince Jr, MD.

“If access to the Indiana pouch requires incision, code 51050 (cystolithotomy, cystotomy with removal of calculus, without vesical neck resection) or 51065 (cystotomy, with calculus basket extraction and/or ultrasonic or electrohydraulic fragmentation of ureteral calculus) would be more appropriate for removal of a stone from the Indiana pouch,” write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.

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Once thought of as a timepoint in the distant future, healthcare has already entered the artificial intelligence era and it will have a transformative impact across the spectrum of medical practice.