The Break Room

Digital Tools to Optimize Documentation, Billing, and Coding

How can three powerful, integrated tech tools improve practice efficiency, reduce administrative work, and enable physicians to work at the top of their license? Our guests are Lane Lee, MD, a Texas-based family medicine physician, and Harrison Lamons, Senior Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management and Credentialing at Privia Health. 

Optimizing RCM for Independent Practices

What trends in revenue cycle management (RCM) can help enhance patient satisfaction, practice operations, and revenue integrity? Our guest for this episode is Melanie Suranto, Vice President of Revenue Cycle Management at Privia Health. We discuss the value of partnering with an award-winning RCM team, the impact of value-based care, advanced technologies that support billing and coding, and much more.

Elevating & Empowering Pediatricians

What tools and support can help independent pediatricians optimize operations and care for their patients and families? Our guests for this episode are Melissa Montague, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Privia Pediatrics and Privia Women’s Health, and Elizabeth Flynn, MD, of Manassas Pediatrics in Virginia. We discuss strategies for physician governance, value-based care, partnership opportunities, specialty-specific technology, and much more.

New Alternatives for Health Systems

How can partnerships help forward-looking health systems harness the forces of disruption, align physicians, and thrive in value-based care? Our guest for this episode is Mike Flammini, Chief Business Development Officer at Privia Health. We discuss the role of health systems, trends in the physician landscape, criteria for potential partners, and more.

Creating Value in Value-Based Care

How can physicians achieve consistent success in value-based care? Our guest for this episode is Rick Foerster, Senior Vice President of Value-Based Operations at Privia Health. We discuss tools and strategies for physician engagement and education, the importance of physician leadership and governance, the pandemic’s impact on value-based care, and much more.  

“Fireside Chat” With Special Guest Paul H. Keckley, Ph.D.

In this special episode of The Break Room, you’ll hear an insightful, intimate, and intriguing conversation between two industry thought leaders: Privia Health CEO Shawn Morris and Dr. Paul H. Keckley, Managing Editor of The Keckley Report. Hear these two experts discuss Big Tech’s role and President Biden’s agenda, independent providers and health systems, and much more as we analyze the past, present, and future of healthcare.

What Is Physician Enablement?

Researchers estimate the total "physician enablement" market opportunity currently stands at $1.9 trillion and may hit $3.5 trillion by 2030. But what exactly is physician enablement? We discuss and define the term and sector with Privia Health CEO Shawn Morris and Chief Clinical Officer Keith Fernandez, MD. We explore strategies and tools to nurture the doctor-patient relationship, elevate the clinical voice, advance value-based care, and much more! 

Exploring the Benefits of a Virtual Scribe

How can a virtual scribe service help improve patient satisfaction and engagement, increase practice revenue, streamline provider workflows, and reduce administrative burden? In this episode, we discuss these important questions and many more with Anna Graziano, Director of Privia+, and Thomas Maslen, MD, an internal medicine physician in Maryland. 

Challenges of Cybersecurity & Compliance in Healthcare

Our guest is Paul Shenenberger, Senior Vice President of IT Operations and Chief Information Security Officer at Privia Health. We’ll explore ways for smaller or independent practices to safeguard patients’ sensitive health data, analyze the impact of telehealth and working from home on cybersecurity measures, examine the promise — and the potential problems — of trends in cybersecurity and compliance, and much more.

What Do the 2021 E/M Coding Changes Mean for Your Practice?

The American Medical Association's E/M revisions are designed to reduce administrative burden, elevate the patient-provider relationship, and make coding and documentation simpler and more flexible. Here to discuss these changes is Amy Waller, Vice President, HIM and Coding Integrity at Privia Health.