New Movement Disorder Program Offers Focused Expertise
CentraState is pleased to introduce a new Movement Disorder Program led by Jia Zhen Cheng, MD, who brings focused expertise in movement disorders to our patients [...]
Pulmonologist as Patient: A Personal Experience With COVID-19
The COVID-19 crisis has been a surreal experience for many – especially for those on the front lines of care. And even more so for caregivers [...]
Adaptability and Clinician Collaboration Aid in Fight Against COVID-19
Early on in the COVID-19 crisis, CentraState chief medical officer James Matera, DO, recognized that treating patients with COVID-19 required new parameters for care. To handle [...]
COVID-19 Resources for Reopening Your Practice
As social distancing restrictions become more relaxed after the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and physician offices begin to reopen, here are some guidelines and tips [...]
HCC Coding Tips: Documentation is Key
The premium that Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) compensates Medicare Advantage Plans is based on underlying health conditions of Medicare Advantage enrollees. These conditions [...]
Radiology Ordering Professionals: Know the AUC Program Requirements
The Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a program that promotes Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) [...]
Developing Best Practices for Episodes of Care
The trend across payers is to develop episodes of care for certain disease states, particularly when identifying high cost/high gaps in care among a patient population. [...]
New Research in Diabetes Treatment
An overriding goal in medicine is to decrease variability in the way chronic disease is treated. Clinical research can have important implications in defining the latest [...]
How Family Practice of CentraState Benefits from CPC+
Family Practice of CentraState is now in its third year of Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+), which is a CMS Advanced Payment Model that aims to strengthen [...]
Hierarchal Condition Category (HCC) Coding for More Reliable Risk Scores
HCC coding is a risk-adjustment model originally designed to estimate future health care costs for patients. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) HCC model [...]
Improving Outcomes with Population Health Strategies
Through the Practice Unite app, a preferred method of communication for PHO members, PHO physicians can quickly and easily link their patients to population health programs [...]
Welcome to CHP’s Newest Providers!
Kristy Palomares, MD Rose Caruso, DPM Rejan Desai, MD Dhimant Balar, DO Helen Simigiannis, MD Victoria Lupinacci, APN Jaclyn Guliano, MD Zeeshan Khan, MD Sean Ceci, [...]