Strategic Planning in a Dynamic Healthcare Environment

Peter Pollack

If health care offered a stable environment in which stakeholders could clearly understand payment models, competition, and how rapidly change might occur, then the need for strategic planning might be superfluous," explained Michael J. Stahl, PhD, Professor Emeritus, who for 18 years served as the distinguished professor of management and director of the physician executive MBA program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Prof.

How to Use Modifier 25 Correctly

William R. Creevy, MD

Modifier 25 is used when a minor procedure (one with a 0- or 10-day global period) and a significant and separately identifiable evaluation and management (E/M) service are performed during the same session or day. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and Medicare have identified the use of modifier 25 as an area of potential overuse and misuse.

PROs in Practice

Joseph P. DeAngelis, MD, MBA; Neha Agrawal, MPH

In the first article of this two-part series on the use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) (see "Collecting and Using Patient-Reported Outcomes in Everyday Practice," AAOS Now, January 2017), Charles A. Goldfarb, MD, from Washington University in St. Louis, shared his experiences with implementing the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®). In this article, we talk with Bradley J.