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Overview: About Emergency Care Consultants (ECC)  With a staff of nearly 175 providers and support staff, Emergency Care Consultants (ECC) is the leading employer of ... Read more

Every facility-based physician specialty faces specific challenges that make its revenue cycle management (RCM) unique. Radiology experiences nearly all of those challenges, plus a few ... Read more

By Jamie Shoemaker, MD, FACEP Healthcare is not just a profession—it is a business. And in the business of healthcare, scale matters. Independent emergency medicine ... Read more

Hospital Medicine Documentation Excellence Series In this installment in our Hospital Medicine Documentation Excellence Series, Maria Douglas, CPC, CEDC, CP shares best practices for coding ... Read more

Concurrency involves the practice of documenting overlapping medical services. In the anesthesia industry, a concurrency is created when an anesthesia provider, such as an anesthesiologist, ... Read more

Rapid-fire regulatory changes and funding cuts at the federal level are creating uncertainty around Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement. Many clients are asking us what these ... Read more

The Challenge: From FDA Clearance to Getting Paid At Ventra Health, we are committed to delivering cutting-edge insight into the evolving intersection of artificial intelligence ... Read more

By Nettie McFarland, RHIT, CCS-P, CHC, Director of Provider Education  Clinical documentation serves many purposes, supporting everything from risk management and medicolegal review to coding ... Read more

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the final rule for the 2025 Quality Payment Program (QPP). This rule outlines the participation ... Read more

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the final rule for the 2025 Quality Payment Program (QPP). This rule outlines the participation ... Read more

Nationally Recognized Physician to Enhance Ventra’s Deep RCM Capabilities in Radiology DALLAS – April 15, 2025 – Ventra Health (“Ventra”), a leading business solutions provider ... Read more

“A rigid, one-size-fits-all approach usually ends up fitting no one.” — Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business Business consultant ... Read more

Clinical documentation serves many purposes, supporting everything from risk management and medicolegal review to coding and billing. As you might expect, clinicians find it challenging ... Read more

A groundbreaking study by the RAND Corporation, funded by ACEP’s EMPI, analyzing over 50 million emergency department (ED) professional claims across four years reveals an ... Read more

Key Highlights and Take-Aways By Sarah Herzog, President, Radiology Business Unit and Jennifer Bash, RHIA, CIRCC, RCCIR, CPC, RCC, CANPC, Director of Coding Education We are ... Read more

Dallas, TX – March 26, 2025 – Ventra Health (“Ventra”), a leading business solutions provider for facility-based physicians, announced today that it has formed a ... Read more

Why Are Physician Groups Struggling To Get Paid? Payers are making it harder for facility-based physician groups to get reimbursed fairly for their care. Denials ... Read more

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Strategic Advisors for Emergency Medicine, Dr. Jamie Shoemaker and Dr. Mark Laperouse, along with Senior Vice President Laurence Kessler, joined Evan Martin on the Wilshire ... Read more

Radiologists are navigating significant shifts in reimbursement where declining payment rates and increasing imaging demand create financial and operational tension. Radiology reimbursement cuts have slashed ... Read more

A thorough and accurate clinical history is essential to the radiologist interpreting an exam-both from a patient care perspective and for billing and compliance purposes. ... Read more