decisionhealth Newsletters, Part B News - 2018 Issue 4 (April)
Check opioid prescribing habits against average for your practice’s specialties
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Article Overview
This piece covers a Medicare comparative billing report focused on opioid prescribing patterns and how practices can compare clinicians’ prescribing behavior with peer averages. It is aimed at physicians, practice managers, compliance staff, and coding/billing professionals who monitor opioid-related scrutiny and want to understand the report’s specialty-based trends and summary statistics. The article discusses the report’s purpose, the types of metrics it includes, and how the specialty comparisons are presented.
Why This Topic Matters
Opioid prescribing is under heightened government attention, so practices need to understand comparative benchmarks that may draw reviewer attention. Reviewing these report-based patterns can help organizations assess internal trends and prepare for compliance questions.
Article Sections
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Benchmark of the week
Introduces the topic as a weekly benchmark and frames the discussion around opioid prescribing patterns and comparative reporting.
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Comparative billing report overview
Summarizes the report’s purpose, source data, and the general kind of prescribing comparison it provides for providers and specialties.
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Summary statistics and specialty comparisons
Describes the broad categories of metrics included in the report and notes that the article compares specialty-level trends at a high level.
What You Will Learn
- What the comparative billing report is intended to show
- Which broad metrics are included in the opioid prescribing summary
- How specialty-level comparisons are presented in the report
- Why practices may want to review prescribing patterns against peer averages
Who Should Read This
- Physicians
- Practice managers
- Compliance staff
- Medical coders
- Billing staff
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