The Connected Practice: The Physician’s Guide to Unlocking IPC Revenue
This case study shows how physician practices can generate new revenue using Interprofessional Codes (IPC), Agentic Intelligence, and a unified clinical communication infrastructure built exclusively for physicians.
FHIR‑Native Clinical Communication: The New Operational Requirement for 2026 Interoperability
In this episode of The Connected Practice, Dr. Kevin Halow explores why FHIR native clinical communication is becoming an important operational requirement for healthcare organizations in 2026. He explains how fragmented EHR systems and disconnected applications create interoperability challenges, administrative burden, and communication friction for physicians. The episode examines APIs, HL7 FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CMS 0057 F, and the changing requirements around prior authorization. Dr. Halow also discusses how ClinicianCore is building an intelligent communication layer designed to connect clinical workflows with compliant healthcare systems. From HCC Consult Core and billable consultations to HCX communication and the Physician Lounge, the episode explores how interoperable infrastructure can support unified clinical communication, medical practice efficiency, HIPAA compliant collaboration, and physician burnout reduction
How Specialist Consultation Delays Affect Patient Outcomes: The 2026 Evidence
In surgery, we say time is tissue. The principle holds equally for consultation medicine: every hour between a patient’s need for specialist input and the actual clinical exchange is an hour in which care decisions are made without complete information.
Billing Interprofessional Consults: 2026 CPT Rules
The distinctions between telephonic and written interprofessional consultation are not a billing technicality; they are the difference between a reimbursable claim and a denial.
The Curbside Trap: Why Physicians Aren’t Billing for Their Best Work
In this episode of The Connected Practice, Dr. Kevin Halow examines the hidden cost of curbside consultations and why physicians often fail to receive compensation for valuable clinical expertise they provide to colleagues. He discusses CPT codes 99446 through 99452, along with the administrative challenges that make physicians reluctant to bill for interprofessional consultations. The episode explores how documentation requirements, time tracking, consent, and fragmented communication contribute to physician burnout and administrative burden. Dr. Halow introduces HCC Consult Core as a way to structure curbside consultations through secure, HIPAA compliant clinical communication, automatic audit trails, time tracking, and integrated reporting. The goal is to improve medical practice efficiency while helping physicians capture the value of their consultative work.
CMS 0062 P and Clinical Orchestration: Meeting the 24-hour Prior Authorization Mandate Beyond the EHR
The healthcare regulatory landscape shifted again in April 2026 with the CMS proposed rule known as CMS 0062 P. The rule extends federal prior authorization reform to drugs and introduces a 24-hour expedited decision window that group practices, outpatient clinics, and community hospitals are not currently equipped to meet.
Architecting HIPAA-Compliant Multi-Tenant Healthcare AI Systems
A governance-first blueprint for designing HIPAA-compliant multi-tenant healthcare AI systems with tenant isolation, PHI protection, and audit-ready infrastructure.