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8 Tips for Reducing Insurance Claim Denials
For those who work in the behavioral health field, navigating the complexities of billing procedures can provide its share of headaches. A busy practice can…
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How Providers Can Keep Patients Coming Back
As healthcare costs continue to be on the front burner of not only the political landscape but people’s monthly budgets as well, patients are taking…
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Why Medical Data Needs to be Protected
One of the most pressing issues of our time is that of privacy. The headlines come in many different forms. Sometimes it’s about how much…
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10 Things That Should Be In Every Psychiatric Nurse’s Progress Note
by Richard Morganstern, MD Inpatient psychiatric nurses play an important role as information collectors so that, among other things, psychiatrists will make the right medication…
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Insurers Need to do More to Improve Their Networks
A recent study by Milliman Inc. shines a light on what many psychiatrists already know: Insurance company restrictions are detrimental to people getting affordable treatment…
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Enforcing the Law and Caring for Mental Health
Saturday morning cartoons make everything seem so simple, don’t they? Think of the shows you watched as a child. The police officers were the good…
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5 Strategies to Help Your Patients Adapt to New Technology
In the healthcare field, we often take the advent of new technology as part of the job. It seems there’s always a new device to…
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Are We Entering the Day of the Digitalist?
“The Digitalist will reside in an e-coordination facility and remotely track data from biosensors, portals, apps, and social media, then combine the data with clinical…
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Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness
Mental Illness in America More than 43 million Americans are suffering from mental illness, but less than half of those, some 43 percent, receive treatment,…
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The Trend Toward Integrated Healthcare: Mental and Physical Health
For generations, healthcare professionals were trained to view a patient’s well-being along two different paths. Traditional health went one way and mental health another. The…
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EHR Growth is on its Way to a Big Boom by 2025
The electronic health records (EHR) market is growing. Those of us active in the space see it every day, and physicians in the marketplace are…
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5 Reasons Fingerprint Scan Technology Makes Sense For Your Practice
Fingerprint Scan Technology for Patient Identification Should you incorporate a fingerprint scanner into your practice for patient identification? Isn’t it just an additional step in…
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Supporting Seniors’ Mental Health Throughout the Aging Process
Preserving a person’s life is one of the fundamental goals — if not the fundamental goal — of the medical profession, and our advancements in technology, care…
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Overcoming the next great psychiatric challenge
The psychiatric community faces a great challenge. It isn’t one from a new condition, a shift in healthcare or a new treatment regimen. The challenge…
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3 Resources to Simplify Your Medical Billing Codes
Medical billing codes are an integral part of your business, but the coding process you use can determine whether it’s a needlessly wasteful and time-consuming part of…
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