Howard Jones | Medical Practice Management Expert | Healthcare Regulations Experts – Training Doyens

Howard Jones

Howard Jones
President, HJones and Associates LLC

Years of Experience: 35+ years

Areas of Expertise: Healthcare Regulations

Howard Jones 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 Encyclopaedia 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.

• Are You One of China’s Future Leaders?

He is currently the President of his own consulting businesses –

• HJones & Associates, LLC., a consulting business that provides services to both the healthcare and business world – writing blogs, website audits, copywriting services, webinars on HIPAA, etc.