Background: As the landscape of health care access and delivery has changed over the past 10 years, areas of coding, documentation, denials management, appeals, and reimbursement have become more confusing to navigate for most physicians delivering direct patient care. The physician advisor is an experienced physician who understands the rules and regulatory issues involving patient […]

Background: Point-of-care ultrasound training programs (POCUS) have proliferated, but the best method of skills assessment remains unclear. Most published testing protocols assess only image acquisition and interpretation. In a clinical scenario, recognizing an indication for POCUS, selecting the appropriate exam, integrating findings with the other data from the case, and formulating a differential diagnosis and […]

Background: The Vizient Quality and Accountability scorecard is a tool that measures academic medical centers (AMCs) clinical performance, focusing on quality and safety while targeting specific opportunities for improvement. The Vizient quality domains include Mortality, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Equity, Patient Experience, and Patient safety. In an academic setting, the frontline healthcare providers are resident physicians. As […]

Case Presentation: 69-year-old female with a past medical history of coronary artery disease with prior percutaneous coronary intervention of the right coronary artery and left circumflex coronary artery, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and COPD presented to an outside hospital with acute onset dyspnea and right-sided chest pain. ECG was obtained immediately upon arrival and was notable for […]