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Anonymous - [ December 31, 1969 - 6:00:00 (CST) ]
IT has now done me in. I am a strong advocate for electronic improvement in health care. I have used a template driven chart note with updated summaries since 1997 and electronic Rx since 2003.
I am a solo internist with a hopsital and outpatient practice. Since my practice is closed to new parients and all my others are a decade or two older it is heavily weighted to medicare. My npi number has been in the electronic billing system for over a year and as of May 23 I stopped getting any checks from Medicare. Over three months of working with the system I still cannot get it resolved. My choices are to give up and find another job or drop medicare and realign my practice.
This does not improve my practice no matter how much of a better job I think technology has helped me accomplish. Four month of loosing all medicare billings is about all I can afford.
