Maryland Medicaid Enrollment Policy Changes – Effective 10.1.19

Maryland Medicaid will implement important physician enrollment policy changes to comply with federal requirements for Ordering, Referring, and Prescribing (ORP) providers. For full details, please refer to this letter, which details the updated policies. Effective October 1, 2019, the Maryland Department of Health will deny payment for prescriptions from providers who are not actively enrolled…

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From Our First Collegiality Dinner of 2019: Lots of Laughter & Commiseration

    Reestablishing Old Bonds The practice of medicine has changed, and how, when, and where physicians have the opportunity to connect with one another has changed with it.  Last Thursday evening members came together at Stanford Grill in Rockville. They met colleagues they refer to but had never met in person, discussed their greatest day-to-day challenges,…

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From Our Roundtable: Strategies for Resolving Difficult Employment Situations

Last Tuesday, February 26, MCMS hosted a roundtable of thirty practice administrators and physicians, there to discuss the most pernicious, frustrating, and troublesome employment situations in their practices. Here are key strategies and best practices, organized by issue area, that our roundtable identified: Working with Longtime Employees Nearing Retirement Our roundtable participants agreed that the…

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