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What is a DO(Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine)?

We participate with several insurance company plans please verify with both the provider and insurance that the contract remains in effect. These plans include (but are not limited to):

WHY HAVE WE GONE ELECTRONIC?

According to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act: “…Development of a nationwide health information Technology infrastructure that allows for the electronic use and exchange of information and that—

‘‘(1) ensures that each patient’s health information is secure and protected, in accordance with applicable law;

‘‘(2) improves health care quality, reduces medical errors, reduces health disparities, and advances the delivery of patient centered medical care;

‘‘(3) reduces health care costs resulting from inefficiency, medical errors, inappropriate care, duplicative care, and incomplete information;

‘‘(4) provides appropriate information to help guide medical decisions at the time & place of care;

‘‘(5) ensures the inclusion of meaningful public input in such development of such infrastructure;

‘‘(6) improves the coordination of care and information among hospitals, laboratories, physician offices, and other entities through an effective infrastructure for the secure and authorized exchange of health care information;

‘‘(7) improves public health activities and facilitates the early identification and rapid response to public health threats and emergencies, including bioterror events and infectious disease outbreaks;

‘‘(8) facilitates health and clinical research and health care quality;

‘‘(9) promotes early detection, prevention, and management of chronic diseases;

‘‘(10) promotes a more effective marketplace, greater competition, greater systems analysis, increased consumer choice, and improved outcomes in health care services; and

‘‘(11) improves efforts to reduce health disparities.

Additionally, we have been notified beginning “2015 and later, Medicare eligible professionals who do not successfully demonstrate meaningful use will have a payment adjustment to their Medicare reimbursement.” Other insurance companies plan to follow similar procedures.