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How to pick an EMR for your plastic surgery or dermatology practice: cosmetic split, module ranking, true cost, demo scripts, and surviving the switch.

AI coding tools are flooding dermatology. The seven vendor questions that separate real tools from compliance exposure on your bottom line.

Practices buy RPA for judgment work and AI for button-pushing. Where each belongs in plastic surgery billing — our companion to PS2PM’s AI guide.

Specialty EMR integrations 2026: which platforms have real APIs, which AI scribes actually write back, what clearinghouse sits underneath, and what to ask.

EMR market share claims, traced: where ModMed’s 40%, Symplast’s 10%, and Best in KLAS actually come from — and how to read the numbers before you buy.

Payer contracts set the financial baseline for your whole practice. What credentialing and contracting really take, why rate negotiation is a 12–18 month specialist job, and how to decide as a new practice.

Free-flap breast reconstruction (CPT 19364: DIEP, fTRAM, SIEA, GAP) is WHCRA-mandated. The S-code sunset and co-surgeon billing decide what it pays.

Does your EMR’s AI actually exist yet? A vendor-by-vendor 2026 scorecard of specialty EMR/EHR AI — what shipped, what’s roadmap, and what to ask.

Endovenous vein ablation (36475 RF, 36478 laser) is covered for documented saphenous reflux after a failed compression trial — not for spider veins or appearance.

Breast reduction (CPT 19318) coverage isn’t only the Schnur gram threshold — two documented symptoms can qualify it, and prior auth decides whether it pays.