http://www.enttoday.org Practice Management Topic Rss http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/756405/Audit_Agony_Prepare_yourself_as_insurers_look_to_recoup_funds.html Hayes Wanamaker, MD, an otolaryngologist in Syracuse, N.Y., refers to the recovery audit process of insurance carriers as the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent. 2010-07-02T15:36:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/690067/A_Partner_in_the_Business_Practices_see_mid-level_providers_as_valuable_addition.html When Winston C. Vaughan, MD, told his Stanford University patients he was leaving academia to establish a private group practice, they had one question: “Are you taking Kathleen with you?” Their concern attests to the integral role that Kathleen Low, RN, NP, fills as a patient-care provider in Dr. Vaughan’s otolaryngology practice. 2010-05-02T16:27:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/684957/Avoid_the_Hot_Seat_How_to_prepare_for_a_CMS_audit.html In February, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began rolling out its national Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program, aimed at ferreting out improper payments and preventing fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicare system. If you bill for Medicare fee-for-service, you are fair game for a RAC audit. A three-year demonstration of the RAC program, which ended in March 2008, heavily targeted bronchoscopy, injectable drugs and IV hydration therapy. But auditors are rapidly expanding the list,... 2010-04-01T02:21:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/684943/A_New_Game_Plan_Otolaryngologists_and_consultants_devise_solutions_to_ride_out_t.html Otolaryngologists understand that even their most loyal patients, with finances ravaged by the lingering economic recession, may postpone or forego endoscopic sinus surgery, tonsillectomy or a chemical facial peel in favor of paying the mortgage. 2010-04-01T02:08:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/554349/Fill_the_Gap_Strategies_for_addressing_the_otolaryngology_workforce_shortage.html How do you plan to deal with workforce shortages? If you are like 55 percent of the audience at an interactive mini-seminar held during the October American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Foundation annual meeting, you intend to hire additional otolaryngologists to help with practice overload. 2010-01-01T00:36:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/496249/Trauma_Care_and_the_Otolaryngologist_Roles_Expectations_and_Challenges.html SAN DIEGO-Trauma care in the United States is on or heading toward life support. Although this may sound hyperbolic, it points to a need, seen by many otolaryngologists and other surgeons, to raise awareness of the growing gap between the numbers of people in need of trauma services and the accessibility of getting those services. 2009-12-01T02:45:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/496403/Spreading_Medical_Knowledge_Abroad_Is_Necessary_and_Rewarding.html PHOENIX-As James D. Smith, MD, took his place behind the lectern to prepare to speak about what America's role should be in the instruction of physicians in underprivileged and disease-stricken countries, a question was posed on the screen next to him: Do we have a responsibility to help? 2009-09-01T04:01:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/496975/Recruitment_Evaluation_Regionalization_Among_Novel_Challenges_to_the_Specialty.html PHOENIX-The speciality of head and neck surgery has come a long way. But, along with huge advances in the types of treatments available and the technologies used, the profession is facing challenges-such as the recruitment of good candidates into the field and issues related to the regionalization and globalization of care. 2009-08-01T04:41:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/496965/Outgoing_ALA_President_Forecasts_Bright_Future.html PHOENIX-Laryngology is enjoying a resurgence in the world of endoscopy and the future of the field is promising, outgoing American Laryngological Association (ALA) President Roger L. Crumley, MD, MBA, said in his presidential address at the 130th annual meeting of the association, an address that touched on the discipline's past as well as challenges it is facing. 2009-08-01T04:36:00Z http://www.enttoday.org/details/article/496983/The_Time_for_Leadership_Is_Now_Says_Past_ACS_President.html PHOENIX-With the election of President Barack Obama and with lawmakers in Washington poised to overhaul the health care system, with patients' faith in their doctors faltering, and with health costs continuing to rise and quality becoming ever more questionable, Gerald B. Healy, MD, took the lectern for his keynote address here as if he were taking the helm of a ship at risk of being capsized by stormy seas. 2009-07-01T04:55:00Z