2021 E/M Coding Changes Overview

The 2021 Evaluation and Management guideline and code changes, effective January 1, 2021, were the first major shake-up to coding in many years. Nancy Clark, Senior Manager for the Health Care Consulting Group, discusses why the change was made now, what providers should be concerned about, and how a practice can protect itself.

Telehealth Is Here to Stay

Bert Orlov, a Director in EisnerAmper’s Health Care Services Group, talks about the vital role of telehealth in the current health care environment. He discusses issues like insurance coding, revenue management, scheduling, and best practices for developing an effective telehealth infrastructure.

Key Steps to Restarting Physician Practices

In this podcast, Bert Orlov, a Director in EisnerAmper’s Health Care Services Group, discusses the key steps in restarting physician practices post-pandemic. Bert covers how to make patients more comfortable in coming back to physician offices, ways to minimize risk, how technology and partnerships can help, and practice financial management in the new normal.

When Health Care M&As Flatline

Michael McLafferty, EisnerAmper partner and leader of the firm’s Health Care Services Group, talks about health care M&As that don’t make it to the finish line.  Citing a couple of recent real-life examples, Mike covers typical reasons why these partnerships don’t get off the ground, how health care M&As are different from other sectors, and the costs of not getting the deal done.  

Giving Financial First-Aid to an Ailing Health Care Company

In this podcast, Steven Bisciello, Senior Manager in EisnerAmper’s Health Care Services Group, talks about the many challenges health care organization face that could adversely impact their bottom line. Steven gives a real-life example of how using the proper accounting and financial triage can nurse a health care organization back to fiscal health.

Is Health Care at a Crossroads? (Part II)

In the second part of our interview, EisnerAmper partner and leader of its Health Care Services Group Michael McLafferty looks at consolidation in the health care sector, concerns about patient information and data security, and how being a business and financial advisor to health care professionals is a specialty unto itself.

Is Health Care at a Crossroads? (Part I)

In part 1 of this interview, EisnerAmper partner and leader of the Health Care Services Group Michael McLafferty tells us about what impact the new administration may have on health care, how consumer choice is increasingly driving where insurance companies do business, and what financial issues are top-of-mind for physicians and hospital administrators.