About United Urology Group
Established in 2016, United Urology Group is a management services organization (MSO) for one of the nation’s largest network of urology affiliate practices. United Urology Group is regarded as the leading urology network in the country. We support affiliate practices on their exceptional integrated care programs, excellence, and innovation in the delivery and administration of urologic care. United Urology Group enables affiliate practices to focus on providing high quality, integrated and cost-effective care to all patients. More than 1,600 caring, compassionate employees are affiliated with the network, including 150+ physicians and 50+ advanced practice providers, serve 900,000+ patients a year with superior urologic care.
The organization’s member groups of urology practices today include:
United Urology Group provides its affiliate practices with the support needed to enhance the level of services offered, alleviating administrative and financial burdens, and providing the capital needed for expansion. United Urology Group’s ultimate goal is to provide affiliated members with the balance of autonomy and more time to focus on what’s most important – delivering superior patient care.
Committed to Clinical Excellence
United Urology Group’s mission is to ensure every patient has a superior experience. That’s what drives the company’s culture. The United Urology Group Executive and Affiliate Clinical Leadership teams, affiliate physicians, and all staff are fully committed to delivering exceptional, compassionate patient care and adhering to high ethical and quality standards. United Urology Group focuses on teamwork, innovation, and growth.
Supporting the provision of superior, compassionate patient care and helping people live healthier lives through high quality, cost-effective care is at the core of our identity, drawing on the expertise of our affiliated providers, the most innovative diagnostics and treatments the world has to offer, and our core values.
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Robert Hoy, PA-C, on communication tips for APPs to enhance collaboration
August 30th 2024“[This way, I can] educate myself and put myself in their shoes and suggest a treatment or a plan or an evaluation, and then find out what their feedback might be from a collaborative standpoint,” say Robert D. Hoy, MPAS, PA-C.
Coding Q&A: Can urodynamics be performed and billed under an NP only?
July 28th 2024"Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are considered qualified health care professionals and are able by license to supervise diagnostic tests and interpret based upon state laws," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.
How to bill for using a disposable endoscope in a facility setting
May 31st 2024"Although the Medicare physician fee schedule, which is typically the primary focus of many of our discussions, is what is used to determine physician payment for a service, payment for an ASC is governed by separate rules," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.
Joy Maulik, CRNP, on the role of APPs in urologic care
May 29th 2024“Variation is the enemy of quality. The more streamlined we can do these things and include APPs in the teachings of procedures and understanding different subspecialties of prostate cancer, I think it would be helpful,” says Joy Maulik, CRNP
Medicare’s G2211 and thoughts on how to best use it in urology
May 1st 2024"We felt that it was important to again address this topic because we have received numerous questions regarding the correct use of this code and we have had some experience using the code now that it is active and been able to observe some of the initial payment processing by the payer," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.
How to code for removal of a bladder calculus via a Mitrofanoff
March 22nd 2024"Per CPT coding instructions, when procedures or services performed by physicians do not have a valid or descriptive CPT or Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code, the service should be reported using an unlisted code," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.
Dr. Lowentritt on the impact of flotufolastat F 18 in prostate cancer management
January 27th 2024"What we saw was it that there were a significant number of patients that did change their management based on the findings. Of those patients, 88% of them changed because of a positive test," says Benjamin H. Lowentritt, MD, FACS.
Coding Q&A: Billing for female total urethrectomy with complete cystectomy
January 5th 2024"When we think about a typical procedure for performing a radical cystectomy for cancer with an ileal conduit, that would typically involve lymph node dissection, and therefore CPT 51595 would be best chosen to report that combined procedure," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.
Billing for nephroscopy with ureteroscopy and laser lithotripsy
July 19th 2023"CPT codes 50080 and 50081 describe the antegrade approach to stone removal requiring lithotripsy through a nephrostomy tract, with 50080 being reported for stones less than 2 cm in size in a single location, whereas 50081 would be reported for large or complex stones, stones in multiple locations, or stones in the ureter (such as in the example provided)," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.