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Take the Modern Physician Survey Poll Staff Reporters The Federal Trade Commission recently delayed the enforcement of its red flags rule until at least December 31st 2010. So, do you think the “red flags” rule should apply to physician group practices that offer creditor payment plans to patients? Take the Poll Now Assessment Conclusion Feel [...]
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ADVERTISEMENT Keys to Protecting your Financial Expert’s Credibility in Court By Trugman Valuation Associates Dear Valued Friends and ME-P Colleagues We hope this e-mail finds you happy and healthy! We have attached our most recent newsletter for your perusal and hope that you will find something of interest in it. Link: Trugman Summer 2010 Assessment [...]
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Setting Up Your HIT Security System By Richard J. Mata, MD, CIS, CMP™ [Hon] www.HealthcareFinancials.com In order for a healthcare organization to thrive, it must be able to continue to function no matter what the circumstances are. When disaster strikes, the organization must mobilize all the talent and resources needed to continue their operations and [...]
Filed under: Information Technology, Practice Management, Professional Liability | Tagged: business continuity planning, CCHIT, EHRs, EMRs, Health I.T., HIPAA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, ONC, Richard J. Mata, SAN, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.healthcarefinancials.com | Leave a Comment »
Adaptation is Key in 2010 and Going Forward By Robert James Cimasi; MHA, ASA, AVA, CBA, CMP™ [www.HealthCapital.com] Source: www.HealthcareFinancials.com Hospitals today must continually adjust to deal with pressures to contain reimbursement and utilization levels. The continuing cost containment pressures manifest themselves in many patients being shifted not only to lower acuity treatments but also to [...]
Filed under: Career Development, CMP Program, Health Economics, Managed Care, Subscribe CD-ROM Journal | Tagged: ALS, Hospital industry outlook, hospital outpatient prospective payment system, Medicare’s HOPPS, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Robert Cimasi, St. vincent hospital manhattan, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.healthcarefinancials.com | 7 Comments »
A Letter from the Editors By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ By Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA, CMP™ As many of you know, we founded the Medical Executive Post [ME-P] as a not-for-profit in 2006, and handed over daily operations in 2007. Soon thereafter, our BOD decided to dissolve the ME-P as a non-profit. [...]
Filed under: Alerts Sign-Up, Career Development, Managed Care, Op-Editorials, Practice Management, Subscribe CD-ROM Journal | Tagged: ADA, AMA, APMA, AUM, Bear Sterns, big-pharma, CFP® Board of Standards, david marcinko, fiduciary financial advisors, financial afvisors, FPA, healthcare consulting, hope hetico, Lehman, medical executive post, Mike Burry MD, sermo, stock-brokers, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.healthcarefinancials.com | Leave a Comment »
Leader Steps Down Abruptly By T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling, NPR – June 23, 2010 6:33 pm EDT WASHINGTON, D.C.–The leader of the Pentagon’s premiere program for treatment and research into brain injury and post traumatic stress disorders has unexpectedly stepped down from her post, according to senior medical and congressional officials. [...]
Filed under: Healh Law & Policy, Military Medicine | Tagged: Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, Cathy Haight, Daniel Zwerdling, DCOE, Defense Centers of Excellence, Military Medicine, National Intrepid Center of Excellence, NPR, ProPublica, Rep. Susan Davis, T. Christian Miller, traumatic brain injury, U.S. Army Col. Bob Saum, VA healthcare | 2 Comments »
Understanding Age Banding By Ann Miller RN, MHA [Executive Director] From time to time, our readers send in e-books, files or e-chapters, pamphlets or other material they have created for client, educational or marketing use. Some of it may be worthwhile; some not so. Nevertheless, these publications are often a good place to start [...]
Filed under: Experts Invited, Op-Editorials, Retirement and Benefits | Tagged: age bander, age banding, agebander, California Institute of Finance, california lutheran university, retirement planning, Somnath Basu | 3 Comments »
The Failure of Organizational Innovation in Health Care Submitted by Ann Miller RN, MHA [Executive-Director] The following quote is from a white paper by David M. Cutler NBER Working Paper No. 16030 Issued in May 2010 Medical care is characterized by enormous inefficiency. Costs are higher and outcomes worse than almost all analyses of the [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", Career Development, Health Economics, Practice Management | Tagged: Consumer Healthcare Efficiency Indices, David Cutler, Health Care Entrepreneurs, Health Care Innovators, healthcare efficiency, heathcare costs, Innovation Health Care | 6 Comments »
2010 Edition Sherlock Company ADVERTISEMENT By Douglas B. Sherlock, CFA Senior Health Care Analyst sherlock@sherlockco.com In the next few weeks we will be releasing our thirteenth annual edition of our administrative performance benchmarks for health plans. It is the culmination of 450 health plan years of experience with all major sectors of the health plan [...]
Filed under: Alerts Sign-Up, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Jobs & Employment: | Tagged: CFA, Douglas B. Sherlock, Health Plan Administrative Costs, Sherlock Company | 1 Comment »
Signed by President Bush in 2006 By Gregory O. Ginn; PhD, MBA, CPA, MEd By Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA, CMP™ The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA), S. 1932, was signed by President Bush on February 8, 2006, and became Public Law No. 109-171. Implementation of the act includes these provisions: www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.com Subtitle A – Provisions Relating [...]
Filed under: CMP Program, Healh Law & Policy, Health Economics, Managed Care, Practice Management | Tagged: Deficit Reduction Act, durable medical equipment, federally qualified health centers, Gregory O. Ginn, Medicare Integrity Program, Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B, Medicare Part C, Medicare Part D, Medicare-dependent hospital, National Educational And Information Campaign, prospective payment systems, Rural PACE Provider Grant Programs, skilled nursing facilities, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.healthcarefinancials.com, www.healthdictionaryseries.com | 1 Comment »
Operational Considerations for Improvement By Dr. David Edward Marcinko, FACFAS, MBA, CMP™ By Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA, CPHQ, CMP™ One of us has been an acute general care hospital administrator while the other vice-president of a clinical and medical staff. Throughout our respective tenures, providing high quality care with improved health outcomes was our [...]
Filed under: CMP Program, Health Economics, iMBA, Inc., Practice Management, Subscribe CD-ROM Journal | Tagged: access management, admissions, ARs, case management, david marcinko, HCFA 1500, health information management, hope hetico, hospital invoices, patient financial services, pre-admission, registration, revenue cycles, scheduling, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.healthcarefinancials.com, www.healthdictionaryseries.com, www.medicalbusinessadvisors.com | 3 Comments »
Test Your Knowledge By Jeanette Nordstrom Dear David, You feared ObamaCare would be a disaster for America because you signed the Free Our Health Care Now petition from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) last year to oppose its passage. With more than 1,367,900 signers, it was the largest online policy petition ever delivered [...]
Filed under: Alerts Sign-Up, Healh Law & Policy, Voting Polls | Tagged: Jeanette Nordstrom, National Center for Policy Analysis, National ObamaCare Quiz, NCPA, ObamaCare | 8 Comments »
Challenging Assertions By Shahid N. Shah MS As the physician executive of your medical practice, it’s your job to challenge any eMR vendors’ assertions about why you need an eMR, especially during the selection and production demonstration phase. Information Availability [Anytime – Anywhere] The most important reason for the digitization of medical records is to [...]
Filed under: Information Technology, Media Mentions and PR, Recommended Books | Tagged: Business of Medical Practice, david marcinko, digital medical records, EHRs, electronic medical records, EMRs, Netspective Communications, Shahid Shah, www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com | 6 Comments »
In the Omniscan Case By Jeff Gerth, ProPublica – June 17, 2010 5:59 pm EDT General Electric’s health care unit failed to promptly and completely inform regulators about a patient who died after experiencing adverse effects from the company’s MRI drug Omniscan, Danish drug regulators concluded in a ruling last month. Danish Medicines Agency [...]
Filed under: Drugs and Pharma, Healh Law & Policy, Professional Liability, Research & Development | Tagged: Birthe Madsen, Casper Schmidt, Danish Medicines Agency, FDA, GE Healthcare, Jeff DeMarrais, Jeff Gerth, MRI, NSF, omniscan, OnmiScan, Patientforsikringen, ProPublica | Leave a Comment »
About My Morning Routine By D. Kellus Pruitt; DDS For lack of anything else to write about at the moment, let me describe my morning routine on the weekends. I like to get up early – 5:30 am yesterday morning. More often than not, Bo, our sheltie, is waiting to greet me because he knows [...]
Filed under: Pruitt's Platform | Tagged: Darrell Pruitt, DentalTown, human interest, Jill Kring Carter, lifestyle | 2 Comments »
Making Sure You Get the ME-P Every Day! Ann Miller RN, MHA [Managing Editor] Dear ME-P Subscribers Increasingly, Internet Service Providers [ISPs] are using filtering systems to try and keep spam out of customers’ inboxes. Sometimes, they accidentally filter the e-mail that you want to receive. In many cases, neither party is notified that [...]
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ME-P News Flash Alert! Moments ago, the Senate reached a deal and passed a short-term six month physician pay cut, blocking the 21 percent reimbursement cut scheduled to go into effect today. Assessment This update comes after failing on Thursday to pass the larger H.R. 4213, which not only would have provided the physician [...]
Filed under: Alerts Sign-Up, Breaking News | Tagged: doctor fix, HR 4213, physician payment relief, SGR | Leave a Comment »
About Employee Mary Kay Linn By Darrell Kellus Pruitt; DDS Texas Dental Association Executive-Director Mary Kay Linn seems to think that TDA members owe her respect for some reason. I don’t see it. You get what you give TDA employee Mary Kay Linn. Link: TDA response to Pruitt I’ve attached the partially answered, authoritarian response [...]
Filed under: Career Development, Healh Law & Policy, Information Technology, Pruitt's Platform | Tagged: ADA, American Dental Association, Darrell Kellus Pruitt, EMRs, HIPAA, Mary Kay Linn, TDA, Texas Dental Association | 28 Comments »
The Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Project By Staff Reporters A new program created in Houston and tested in Texas will teach medical professionals nationwide to identify and report signs of elder financial abuse. The EIFFE The Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation project includes a new survey and prevention campaign to help people [...]
Filed under: "Advisors Only", "Doctors Only", Ethics, Financial Planning, Healh Law & Policy | Tagged: Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Project, finance reform, financial fiduciary, FNRA, SEC | 8 Comments »
Emerging Trend Focuses on the Patient By Gregory O. Ginn; PhD, MBA, CPA, MEd By Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA, CMP™ One swelling competitive medical administration and clinical trend is patient-focused and holistic healthcare, which centers on patient needs and attempts to humanize patient care. Definition www.HealthDictionarySeries.com Patient-focused healthcare therefore incorporates the following concepts, among [...]
Filed under: Career Development, CMP Program, Practice Management, Subscribe CD-ROM Journal | Tagged: collaborative medicine, Gregory O. Ginn, health 2.0, hope hetico, participatory medicine, Patient centered healthcare, patient focused healthcare, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.healthcarefinancials.com, www.healthdictionaryseries.com | 1 Comment »
On “Smart Phones” and Mobiles Devices By Shahid N. Shah MS M-Health or “mobile health” is an industry term for collectively defining those tools and technologies that can be used on “smart phones” like iPhone, Blackberry, Android, or on traditional mobile phones from various vendors. Unlike traditional computers, almost every patient that walks into your [...]
Filed under: CMP Program, Information Technology, Media Mentions and PR, Recommended Books | Tagged: Android, blackberry, Business of Medical Practice, CIO, CMIO, EHRs, EMRs, iPhone, M-Health Initiative, mobile devices, Mobile Health, Netspective Communications, Shahid Shah, smart phones, www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.medicalbussinessadvisors.com | 1 Comment »
June Edition of Plan Management Navigator By Erin Sawchuk erinsawchuk@sherlockco.com Please find attached by the link below, the June 2010 Edition of Plan Management Navigator. In this month’s edition, we estimate the strength of cost drivers for “Customer Services in Medicare and Medicaid Plans.” We quantify the relationships of customer services costs to simple algebraic and [...]
Filed under: Alerts Sign-Up, Career Development, Health Economics, Health Insurance, Practice Management, Research & Development | Tagged: Erin Sawchuck, Medicaid, medicare, Plan Management Navigator, Sherlock Company, Sherlock Expense Evaluation Report, TPA | 3 Comments »
Helping Financial Advisors Plan Future Medical Decisions By Ann Miller RN, MHA [Executive Director] From time to time, our readers send in e-books, files or e-chapters, pamphlets or other material they have created for client, educational or marketing use. Some of it may be worthwhile; some not so. Nevertheless, these publications are often a good place [...]
Filed under: Estate Planning, Ethics, Experts Invited, Op-Editorials | Tagged: allow natural death, Estate Planning, Helen Starks MPH, Kevin Cain PhD, living wills, natural death, Robert Perlman MD | 1 Comment »
Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems By Brent Metfessel; MD, MIS www.HealthcareFinancials.com A significant initial cost outlay for an organization-wide CPOE system is necessary, which for a large hospital may run into the tens of millions of dollars. Understandably, the majority of the hospitals that have installed a CPOE system are large urban hospitals. The up-front [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", CMP Program, Information Technology, Practice Management, Subscribe CD-ROM Journal | Tagged: Brent Metfessel, Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems, CPOE, eHR, eMR, LOS, pharmacists, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.healthcarefinancials.com, www.healthdictionaryseries.com | 2 Comments »
An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States Submitted by Hope Rachel Hetico RN, MHA [Managing Editor] From a white paper by David O. Meltzer, Jeanette W. Chung NBER Working Paper No. 16040 Issued in May 2010 General medical care in the United States has historically been provided by physicians who [...]
Filed under: Health Economics, Managed Care, Practice Management | Tagged: David O. Meltzer, hospital based physicians, hospitalists, Jeanette W. Chung | 1 Comment »
Advertise on the ME-P By Ann Miller RN, MHA [Executive Director] Become a sponsor on the #1 resource for medical management consultants and financial advisors in the healthcare space. About Us: http://medicalexecutivepost.com/2007/10/08/hello-world/ The “Deal” The Medical Executive-Post is offering sponsorship opportunities to market leaders in the fields of practice management, financial planning, health economics, business, [...]
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Computerized Physician Order Entry Systems www.HealthcareFinancials.com By Brent Metfessel; MD, MIS Since the late 1990s, there has been increasing pressure for hospitals to develop processes to ensure quality of care. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has estimated the number of annual deaths from medical error to be 44,000 to 98,000. Manual entry of orders, use [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", CMP Program, Information Technology, Subscribe CD-ROM Journal | Tagged: ADE, Brent Metfessel, CPOE, EHRs, EMRs, IOM, Leapfrog Group, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, National Health Information Network, The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.healthcarefinancials.com, www.healthdictionaryseries.com, www.medicalbusinessadvisors.com | 1 Comment »
Or … at Least as We Currently Know It By Staff Reporters The latest Kaiser Health News column bids farewell to employer-sponsored health insurance. It will supposedly erode. And that’s a good thing, according to some experts. Of Criticisms The KHN news begins by saying that one of the latest criticisms of the new health overhaul [...]
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Understanding Build America Bonds By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA [www.clunet.edu/cif] [Director California Institute of Finance] There is heartening news for those of us in retirement or approaching it. There’s a new type of bond called the Build America Bond or BAB. The BAB, along with an older and often ignored retirement investment, is viewed as [...]
Filed under: Financial Planning, Investing, Retirement and Benefits | Tagged: American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, Build America Bond, California Institute of Finance, california lutheran university, Decumulation Phase, retirement planning, Somnath Basu, TIPS bonds, treasury bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, Treasury notes | 2 Comments »
What it Is – How it Works By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA, CMP™ By DeeVee Devarakonda MBA The success of a knowledge driven healthcare organization depends on not only how data can be converted to information – and information into marketing insight – but also by acting upon and converting those insights into building [...]
Filed under: Career Development, CMP Program, Glossary Terms, Marketing & Advertising, Practice Management | Tagged: CRM, DeeVee Devarakonda, healthcare marketing campaigns, Medical CRM, medical marketing, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.HealthDictionaySeries.com, www.medicalbusinessadvisors.com | 1 Comment »
Moro on the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform By Robert Giese bob.giese@chsfl.org The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform [NCFRR] continues to develop a comprehensive proposal to address the federal deficit. It has invited comments from members of Congress, leaders of all types of American organizations and private individuals. We invite ME-P [...]
Filed under: Accounting, Estate Planning, Taxation | Tagged: Alan K. Simpson, federal deficit, George Voinovich, James Q. Riordan, Kent Conrad, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Robert Giese, Value Added Tax | 1 Comment »
A Call to all ME-P Citizen and Investigative Journalists By Hope Rachel Hetico RN, MHA [Managing Editor] According to our colleagues from the Association of Health Care Journalists [AHCJ], the federal government and states are scrambling now to create temporary high-risk pools for the medically uninsurable by July 1, 2010. As one of the first [...]
Filed under: Experts Invited, Health Insurance, Industry Indignation Index | Tagged: AHCJ, Association of Health Care Journalists, health insurance pools, high risk health insurance pools, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Leave a Comment »
An IRS Prediction by Senator Charles Grassley By Robert Giese bob.giese@chsfl.org Senate Charles Grassley (R-IA) is the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee. In a conference call with several reporters on June 2nd, 2010, he discussed the uncertain future of the estate tax. The Proposal [Kyle-Lincoln Estate Tax Compromise] Sen. Grassley noted that Sen. [...]
Filed under: Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Taxation | Tagged: Charles Grassley, Douglas Shulman, estate tax, estate tax exemption, ITS, Kyle-Lincoln Estate Tax Compromise], Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Robert Giese, Senate Finance Committee | 6 Comments »
Are Dentists like … Rodney Dangerfield? By Darrell Kellus Pruitt; DDS “Let’s face it — in our world dentists do not get the respect they deserve. They are not perceived to be ‘real’ doctors … Perhaps the lack of sex appeal in dentistry is part of why dental coverage for everyone is an afterthought in [...]
Filed under: Op-Editorials, Practice Management, Pruitt's Platform, Quality Initiatives | Tagged: ADA, Darrell Pruitt, DDS, dental consultants, dental economics, dentistry, DentistryiQ, DMD, Dr. Robert Ahlstrom, eDRs, EHRs, EMRs, Gary Kadi DDS, HIPPA, HIT, NHII, PennWell | 33 Comments »
Get Rich Slowly By Ann Miller RN, MHA [Executive Director] From time to time, our readers send in e-books, files or e-chapters, pamphlets or other material they have created for client, educational or marketing use. Some of it may be worthwhile; some not so. Nevertheless, these publications are often a good place to start the [...]
Filed under: Financial Planning, Investing, Op-Editorials, Retirement and Benefits | Tagged: 401-k, 403-b, IRAs, JD Roth, retirement planning, Roth IRAs | 4 Comments »
We Got Visual “Fly” By Ann Miller RN, MHA [Executive Director] As you may have noticed, we have a brand new look; very visual and very photographic. ME-P got fly. But, underneath it all, we’re the same ME-P you’ve come to count on for daily essays, updates, investigative reportage, comments, gossips, breaking news, expert advice and [...]
Filed under: CMP Program, iMBA, Inc., Media Mentions and PR, Sponsors, Subscribe CD-ROM Journal | Tagged: certified medical planner, CMP, medical executive post, www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.healthdictionaryseries.com, www.medicalbusinessadvisors.com | Leave a Comment »
Dictionary of Health Insurance and Managed Care ADVERTISEMENT Health care and health insurance have become increasingly complicated for the average citizen. While we at the Benefits Group do our best to assist individuals and businesses with their insurance needs, we appreciate and understand the value of educating yourself on the subject. With that in mind, [...]
Filed under: Alerts Sign-Up, Contest Entrance, Glossary Terms, Health Insurance, iMBA, Inc., Managed Care, Sponsors | Tagged: Benefits Group, Health Insurance, Managed Care, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com, www.HealthDictionaySeries.com, www.medicalbusinessadvisors.com | Leave a Comment »
Newest Episode Just Released By Staff Reporters The latest episode of Health Tech Today is now available, featuring the following items. Content Text4baby, a service from Voxiva that is working to improve infant mortality rates in the United States with free text messages to underserved mothers. Microsoft Unified Communications at one of Japan’s most technologically-advanced hospitals. [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", Alerts Sign-Up, Career Development, Information Technology, Research & Development | Tagged: Bumrungrad International, medical tourism, microsoft, Microsoft Health Tech Today, Microsoft Unified Communications, MS-HUG, Text4baby, Voxiva, ZocDoc | Leave a Comment »
Who Knew What? By Jake Bernstein, ProPublica – June 2, 2010 2:40 pm EDT When Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to running the biggest Ponzi scheme in history, he insisted he was the lone perpetrator, asserting that no one – not his family, not his colleagues, not his friends – knew of the fraud. Alternative Narrative [...]
Filed under: Ethics, Financial Planning, Industry Indignation Index, Investing, Portfolio Management | Tagged: Bernard Madoff, Carl Shapiro, Frank Avellino, Frank DiPascali, Jeffry Picower, Maurice “Sonny” Cohn, Michael Bienes, Ponzi, Robert Jaffe, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities fraud, Wall Sreet | 4 Comments »
Seeking Positive or Negative Lay Experiences By Staff Reporters Recently, we sent out a call for healthcare, and financial service, whistle-blowers from those working as insiders in these sectors. Now, we seek input – not from doctors, nurses, accountants or financials advisors – but the patients and customers they treat and serve. Tell us Your [...]
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Understanding the Medical Career Path [circa 2010] By Eugene Schmuckler PhD, MBA www.MedicalBusinessAdvisors.com When you think about careers, how many adults are truly aware of their own interests, values, strengths and weaknesses during their teen years? As with much of human behavior, career choices actually go through a series of stages. Psychologists have for years identified [...]
Filed under: "Doctors Only", Career Development, CMP Program, Ethics, Op-Editorials | Tagged: Daniel Levinson, Kohlberg, medical careers, physician careers, The Season’s of a Man’s Life | 3 Comments »
Domestic Personal Savings Rate Increasing? By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA [www.clunet.edu/cif] [Director California Institute of Finance] There is a heartening change that we are observing today, an event that is truly national in character. At the bottom of the financial abyss we single-handedly turned around our personal savings for the first time in 12 years. The [...]
Filed under: Financial Planning, Funding Basics, Investing, Op-Editorials | Tagged: California Institute of Finance, california lutheran university, consumption function, financial emergencies, Financial Planning, personal savings rate, propensity to consume, Somnath Basu | 1 Comment »
Taking the Pulse of the Physician Community By Ann Miller RN, MHA [Executive Director] From time to time, our readers send in e-books, files or e-chapters, pamphlets or other material they have created for client, educational or marketing use. Some of it may be worthwhile; some not so. Nevertheless, these publications are often a good [...]
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Panic Control and the Possibility of Severe Financial Degradation By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA [www.clunet.edu/cif] [Director California Institute of Finance] An experiential learning of mammoth proportions occurred several weeks ago in the financial markets. The absolute 10 minute freefall of the prices of stocks and bonds, without any pre-notification froze the hearts of many physicians and lay others [...]
Filed under: Experts Invited, Financial Planning, Investing, Risk Management | Tagged: behavioral economics, behavioral finance, California Institute of Finance, california lutheran university, financial fear, Somnath Basu, stock market, www.certifiedmedicalplanner.com | 1 Comment »
ADVERTISEMENT Events-Planner: JUNE 2010 Staff Writers “Keeping track of important health economics and financial industry meetings, conferences and summits” Welcome to this issue of the Medical Executive-Post and our Events-Planner. It contains the latest information on conferences, news, and relevant resources in healthcare finance, economics, research and development, business management, pharmaceutical pricing, and physician/entity reimbursement! [...]
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