I have spent more than 120 hours over the past week and a half (Including while watching the Super Bowl) creating new tools to help you and as of this week - they are on my webshop.  First - I also updated my website and added new pages to my website - plus a new design - including a page on BELL-CURVEs, a new one on the Code-Portal and one on CANS-MCI that I'm still developing. 

How often do you wonder whether your physician or physician extender is coding within the normal parameters of others in your specialty?  (seriously - how often?)

Have you wondered if you're over-coding or flagging audits?  (I know you have!)

Have you tried to express to your doctor that they are under-coding, based on a comparison to the other doctors in the same specialty?  (yes - you can do this) Have you questioned the validity of the letter you received from Aetna or Blue Cross or Anthem or whomever saying your doctor is using 99214 more often other others in his or her specialty? (you should question it as they may tell you a big fat fib!!) 

You now have an availability of finding out how your doctor compares to others in their OWN specialty by using the 2010 data (most recent data released by CMS) which I found in a very large file and extrapolated the data. They say a picture is worth a thousand words? OK - now you can show your doctor a graph of how they compare and that is very effective. I've been using graphs for more than 20 years when performing a fee/code/charge analysis for practices and it gets the physician's attention much more than numbers when you show them how they compare. Check out http://www.donself.com/bell-curve.html. I believe you'll find it very helpful.