The Cash-Based Medical Practice Solution

Today’s Medical Practice  Too many patients. Too little time. Too many limits on care. Too much documentation. Too many prior authorizations, claim denials, and ever decreasing reimbursement rates. All of this with the news of a 7% to 8.5% increase in inflation. Patients are waiting months for basic care, and increasingly having to foot the...

Is Technology the Solution to Physician Burnout?

The start of EHRs In the 1960s the Mayo Clinic of Rochester Minnesota was one the first major health systems to adopt an electronic health record system (EHR). At that time EHRs were only accessible to large health organizations in partnership with the government largely due to costs. These systems were so expensive that very...

How To Transfer Patient Data

Transferring Patient Data Adopting a new electronic health record system is exciting and stressful because you must think through all aspects of your practice in detail. The truth is, no matter what medical software you use, transferring patient health data from one system to another is an important step. We at Eva Health decided to...

The No Surprises Act and 21st Century Cures Act

On January 1, 2022 several provisions of the No Surprises Act were implemented. These provisions included patient protections against balance billing and price transparency policies including good faith estimates for uninsured and self-pay patients.  In reality this is a complex law with an intention of empowering patients through medical price transparency and ultimately attempting to...

Running a medical practice is HARD

Running a medical practice is HARD It is hard to run a small business and thrive.  At Eva Health our team has years of experience owning, building and managing independent medical businesses. The number one lesson we've learned is just because you may be a great physician, doesn’t necessarily mean you are a good business...

Writing Patient Notes

The Burden of Writing Patient Notes We recently ran across an article exploring the best times for a physician to write patient notes in their EMR. The article starts with, “Do you feel EMR charting is a burden? Do you struggle to complete your notes on time? If you answered yes to one of those,...

The Existential Crisis of the Electronic Health Record System

The Electronic Health Record If I were an electronic health record system I would be asking myself, “Why am I here? What am I doing? What is my purpose? I started out with the best of intentions. My goal was to make it easier to bill the insurance company and break out all the little...