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In addition to the private practice of podiatry, Dr. Blass
has been proud to serve as a consultant to a variety of
organizations. He became known during a period of changing
coding and documentation requirements, as an individual
with a knowledge of standard of care and the necessary
medical record documentation needed to support both proper
care of the patient and correct billing of services
rendered.
For years he served as a consultant to the State of
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (now the
Department of Health). His work consisted of record review
and reporting to the licensing board of Florida as to the
quality and standard of care of physicians under review.
For years he has performed similar services for review
organizations, working with insurance companies in
reviewing patient records to determine necessity of care
and the relation between foot conditions and injury, such
as worker’s compensation and automobile liability. There
are at least three review organizations actively using his
services.
His exposure in this review activity led to requests from
multiple legal firms in the business of defending
physicians on malpractice or licensing actions. Dr. Blass
has built a reputation of fair and dependable record
review performed rapidly and at reasonable expense. |
