When infants and babies feel secure in their relationships with their closest caregivers, it provides a positive impact on their overall mental health. Ensuring pediatric practices meet these needs can help infants and young children grow into healthy and well-adjusted adults....
We are fortunate that diseases like polio, mumps, and diphtheria are now words most young people only know from history lessons — not from first-hand experience with the diseases that were an ever-present danger decades ago. Thanks to the heroic vaccination efforts of physicians, many diseases have been eradicated or...
KPIs help practices achieve their goals by establishing a concrete way to measure their progress. If you don’t track your progress, it’s hard to know which aspects of your practice require improvement. ...
Many of us have experienced trauma over the last few years as we’ve been forced to deal with the fallout from the pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, social unrest, and a dire economic outlook. Unfortunately, the youngest among us have not been immune to the trauma either....
While Medicaid has been used as a way to provide healthcare services to Americans for decades, individuals within the healthcare system, including pediatric providers, do not fully understand it....
All employees deserve to feel fulfilled, appreciated and engaged in their jobs. Nurturing employee engagement is an important part of running any pediatric practice; when done correctly, it benefits your staff and your practice families....
Learning to communicate with patients online has been a central hallmark of the COVID-19 pandemic for pediatric practices. However, evaluating whether your practice is succeeding in this area can be a challenge. The scope of communication in healthcare varies, and there’s no one standard metric that providers can use to...
Many young children and teens struggled during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, organizations like Duck Cup Memorial Fund are stepping into the fray to bring more awareness to this issue. Sara Jutz, the Executive Director of Duck Cup Memorial Fund, recently spoke on the PediaTricks podcast to share more information about...
Social media can be polarizing, but there are many benefits that can be gained from using it as a patient engagement tool in your practice. Having open lines of communication with patients and their families is an important step for practice success, and social media can play a significant role...
Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic, telehealth has been one of the most influential tools providers use to serve their patients. Claims have soared nationwide, going from just 527 claims filed in February 2020 to a remarkable 12.5 million claims just two months later. Since then, telehealth claims have...
The No Surprises Act creates protections against unanticipated medical bills. These unexpected medical bills are an unfortunate reality of the pediatrics landscape – they happen when a patient is inadvertently given care from a provider or facility that is out of their insurance network. Learn more about the impact the...
One of the most challenging aspects of working in, or managing a pediatric practice, is defining success. Let’s take a look at the many forms of pediatric success and which resources can help practices be more successful in their work....
The Pediatric Success Series is excited to introduce our new podcast – created by pediatricians for pediatricians. Listen in to get tips, tricks, and advice from your colleagues and industry experts, around the issues you and your practices are currently facing....
