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What’s new across Practice Index – February 2025 roundup

Practice Index

Best of our blogs Practices will need to find 550m due to salary changes, says the IGPM - Using the Salary Calculator in the HUB, practices have been able to estimate the impact of the upcoming increases to the National Living Wage and National Insurance on their practice budgets. Read now What is a Practice Manager worth?

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A Brief Outlook on the Medical Insurance Verification Software

Arkenea

Medical insurance verification software is developed to automate the process of verifying patients’ insurance coverages. This software is connected to the insurance company’s database to retrieve real-time data on a patient’s insurance status. In 2022, 92.1 percent of people, or 304.0 percent and 36.1

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

Nurses Service Organization (NSO) and CNA have published the new edition of the Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report analyzing 232 closed professional liability claims against NPs, student NPs, and NPs covered through a CNA-insured healthcare business over five years (2017-2021). Incomplete physical assessment.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

billion (or 60% of its total revenues) represent clinical and business services provided to United’s Health Insurance business. Some are returned to insurers other than United for which Optum Rx processes pharmaceutical claims. And some are kept as profit inside either Optum Rx or United’s health insurance business.

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Communication Failure Between Pulmonologist, Nurses Leads to Malpractice Claim

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

. “ [I]t’s essential to not just have a conversation with other providers, but to document that the conversation took place so that there will be no questions later on. After Ms W was resuscitated, Dr P ordered that she be transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU), where she remained hypotensive.

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Communication Failure Between Pulmonologist, Nurses Leads to Malpractice Claim

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

. “ [I]t’s essential to not just have a conversation with other providers, but to document that the conversation took place so that there will be no questions later on. After Ms W was resuscitated, Dr P ordered that she be transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU), where she remained hypotensive.

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A Comprehensive Guide to HL7 Messages

Arkenea

HL7 steps in as the ideal solution, useful for transferring electronic data across two or more healthcare systems. ORU transfers surplus data efficiently between systems, thus maintaining continuity in care. Such documents are supplemental data for the pillar parent standard.