Howard Jones
Biography:
He has been an independent consultant to physicians and hospitals since 1980. He has provided services related to practice management and regulatory compliance issues, selection of billing/EMR systems, and the design of EMR templates for practices and EMR vendors. He has focused on providing services related to healthcare regulations since 1992.
He is the author of a 1992 manual called the Physicians' Medicare Coding/Documentation Guide. This publication served as the handout for a training seminar he developed to assist physicians in learning how to be compliant with the new E&M coding and documentation guidelines introduced in 1992.
He has also been a contributor to other health care business publications, including:
- Business Aspects of Medical Practice
- The Encyclopedia of Medical Practice Management
- Part B Billing
- Make Medicare Work for You
- Physicians' Fee and Coding Guide (1997-99)
He has authored training seminars and conducted them hundreds of times for physicians and hospitals across the country. These seminars included:
- Coding & Billing - Do It Right The First Time
- E&M Documentation - Do It Right The First Time
- A Systems Approach to Managed Care
- Medical Practice Management - A New Perspective
- What Does It Really Take to Qualify for Meaningful Use Funds?
- Healthcare Quality - How Do You Measure It?
He authored and conducted a presentation for 100 MBA students at Nanjing University in Nanjing, China in December 2007. The title of this presentation was ? Are You One of China's Future Leaders?
He is currently the President of his own businesses -
- HJones & Associates LLC, a consulting business that provides services to both the healthcare and business world - solving system problems, copywriting services, webinars, etc.
