QUALITY


Investing in prevention TMA releases new quality improvement tool


“There is at least one thing in these tools that can help


physicians, no matter the specialty.”


BY AMY LYNN SORREL Jason V. Terk, MD, knows that every physician who provides preventive services invests time, staff, resources, and equipment to achieve better clinical outcomes for patients. Having labored through those calculations in his pe- diatric practice at Cook Children’s Physician Network in Keller, he also knows physi- cians could use a simple tool to help determine the potential clinical and financial benefits of the preventive services now recommended for patients. There are dozens of these services, with many related billing codes, now that the


Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires most private health insurance plans and Medicare to cover certain U.S. Preventive Services Task Force


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MATT RAINWATERS


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