Monday, Feb. 26, 2018
Trending Topic Broadcast
10-10:30 a.m. EST; 7-7:30 a.m. PST
FEATURING
Duane Abbey, PhD; Nancy Beckley, MS, MBA, CHC;
David Glaser, Esq.; Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHCQM;
Juliet Ugarte Hopkins, MD, CHCQM-PHYADV;
and Theresa Forster, BA
“The peer-to-peer (P2P) process is a particularly abhorrent chore for physicians,” reports Juliet Ugarte Hopkins, MD, a physician advisor for case management, utilization, and clinical documentation at ProHealth Care, Inc. in Wisconsin. “These phone conversations are generally offered by commercial and managed insurance plans when their clinical case manager or medical director does not feel that inpatient status is supported for a particular patient.”
Listen to Monitor Mondays this coming Monday to hear Dr. Hopkins make the case for abandoning your P2P process if the results are not satisfactory. Might the pressure of P2Ps even be contributing to some physicians considering opting out of Medicare? Joining the discussion on the broadcast will be Duane Abbey, PhD, author, educator, and consultant. Professor Abbey, president of Abbey and Abbey Consultants, Inc., will review the complexities of compliance facing physicians and practitioners who might consider throwing in the towel.
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