Posted on October 31, 2010 by Editors
[What is it – How it works] By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ By Professor Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA, CPQH, CMP™ Introduction In 1995, the primary use of the internet was e-mail for the masses. Next, doctors linked to hospitals and MCOs for clinical information and insurance benefits coverage. Today, physicians are finding deeper [...]
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Posted on October 30, 2010 by Editors
A Handbook for Doctors By ME-P Staff Reporters For practicing physicians, selecting a knowledgeable insurance advisor and developing a comprehensive personal and corporate risk management plan can be a daunting task. As a consequence of today’s litigious environment in the healthcare industry, physicians must now carefully assess their personal and practice risks as they seek [...]
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Posted on October 29, 2010 by Editors
A “New” Clinical Numeric By Professor Hope R. Hetico; RN, MHA, CMP™ [Managing Editor] This new physician-led medical website http://www.thennt.com/ seeks to explain to patients and physicians how well a particular treatment or medicine is likely to work based on a statistical model called the “Number Needed to Treat.” Calculation This is not really a [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2010 by Editors
A Hybrid Business Entity By Staff Reporters A limited liability company (LLC) is a form of business entity some physician use that can provide many advantages to a physician medical practice owner. Definition As the name indicates, there is limited liability to the physician. Therefore, the practice owner’s personal assets are protected from claims [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2010 by Editors
Part One By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA [Publisher-in-Chief] If you read this ME-P regularly or have read my earlier blogs, you know that I am writing a book on practice management for the private medical practitioner. The Business of Medical Practice [Transformational Health 2.0 Skills for Doctors]; third edition: www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com Link: Front Matter BoMP [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2010 by Editors
Law of Diminishing Returns By Staff Reporters Health plans that spend the most on care don’t always deliver the best quality, concludes a new report from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). The Costly Chronic Illnesses Insurers said they spend most on five costly, common chronic illnesses–asthma, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2010 by Editors
Now North of $1.3 Trillion Dollars By Children’s Home Society of Florida Foundation The federal fiscal year for 2010 concluded on September 30th. The Office of Management and Budget and Department of Treasury have released the official figures for fiscal year 2010. The deficit was $1.294 trillion. Geithner Speaks Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner noted [...]
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Posted on October 25, 2010 by Editors
Understanding Professional Employer Organizations [ PEOs] By Eric Galtress www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com One way to improve human resources [HR] is to recruit physicians, nurses, technicians, allied healthcare providers and other hospital personnel who bring in a certain expertise and disseminate it to other employees. Hospitals, larger practices and medical clinics are increasingly hiring materials managers from other industries, [...]
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Posted on October 24, 2010 by Editors
A Modern Ethical Dilemma By Render Davis www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com Conflicts of interest are not a new phenomenon in medicine. In the fee-for-service system, physicians controlled access to medical facilities and technology, and they benefited financially from nearly every order or prescription they wrote. Consequently, there was an inherent temptation to over-treat patients. Even marginal diagnostic or [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2010 by Editors
Contribute Your Insights to the ME-P By Ann Miller RN MHA [Executive-Director] You are cordially invited to contribute to the ME-P; one of the nation’s fastest growing professional networks for financial advisors, accountants, stock brokers, RIAs and their physician and medical professional clients. Send in a Post or Comment Original posts or comments are [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2010 by Editors
Limited Credentials By Charles Ornstein , Tracy Weber and Dan Nguyen ProPublica, Oct. 18, 2010, 11:52 p.m. The Ohio medical board concluded [1] that pain physician William D. Leak had performed “unnecessary” nerve tests on 20 patients and subjected some to “an excessive number of invasive procedures,” including injections of agents that destroy nerve [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2010 by Editors
Objectives Listed By Shahid N. Shah MS www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com In 2009, the ARRA HITECH bill coined the term “meaningful use” and was a game-changer in the healthcare IT industry. In a series of regulations, the Recovery Act specifically required the following. Summary of MU Here are the substantive Meaningful Use objectives of the new ARRA HITECH bill: [...]
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Posted on October 21, 2010 by Editors
An Emerging Management Trend for Medicare Advantage Plans [MAPs] By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ [Publisher-in-Chief] www.HealthcareFinancials.com So called Hierarchical Condition Category Management (HCCM) is an emerging healthcare management trend designed to accurately reflect the health status of Medicare Advantage Plan [MAP] members and to help them remain financially viable in Part D of the system. HCCM Indications [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2010 by Editors
IRAs, Education IRA [Coverdell Accounts], 529 Plans, Qualified and Non-Qualified Annuities and Insurance – in the State of Ohio By Edwin P. Morrow III, J.D., LL.M., MBA, CFP®, RFC® Wealth Specialist – Manager, Wealth Strategies Communications Ohio State Bar Association Certified Specialist, Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Law – Key Private Bank – Wealth Advisory [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2010 by Editors
TAKE THE 2010 CHG Survey Corporate Health Group 7 Brayton Meadow E. Greenwich, Rhode Island 02818 1-888-334-2500 Do you want to learn… • How others in your shoes are attaining ROI successes? • What are emerging trends in physician relations? • What new best practice is growing net new referrals? • How your program compares [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2010 by Editors
Coordinated Strategies Emerging By Karen Weise ProPublica: Oct. 18, 2010, 1:18 p.m. Homeowners, and at times the government, have long complained that banks and other companies that service mortgages aren’t good at their job of collecting monthly payments, modifying loans and processing foreclosures. Now, a new cast of characters are piling on the criticism: [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2010 by Editors
ADVERTISEMENT Benchmark Supplement Licenses Now Available By Douglas B. Sherlock, CFA Managing healthcare insurance and related administrative expenses is especially important for health benefit organizations this year. Health care reform has magnified its importance: the new medical loss ratio regulations are expected to be voted on by the NAIC within a week and approved [...]
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Posted on October 18, 2010 by Editors
Insights for Physician-Focused Financial Advisors By Dr. Charles F. Fenton III, FACFAS, JD www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com In most cases, healthcare knowledgeable financial advisors [FAs] recommend that the physician buyer of a medical practice solely purchase the assets of the practice and not the stock of the practice itself www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.com A Risk Reduction Strategy Why? By purchasing selected [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2010 by Editors
On Being Un-Employed or Under-Employed By Somnath Basu PhD, MBA Web Site: AgeBander: White Paper: AgeBander When one [young medical professional] works at a job for which he or she is overqualified, it is called underemployment. Being employed or even being underemployed beats being unemployed, any day. Since 2008, we have officially lost about 10 [...]
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Posted on October 17, 2010 by Editors
Transformational Health 2.0 Skills for Doctors [third edition] By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA, CMP™ [Editor-in-Chief] By Prof. Hope Rachel Hetico RN, MHA, CPHQ, CMP™ [Managing Editor] The third edition of this now classic 775 page textbook, to be released in November 2010 and copyrighted in 2011, seeks to answers questions like these and many others: [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2010 by Editors
ACO Glossary of Terms from CMS, etc By Staff Reporters According to Wikipedia, an Accountable Care Organization, or ACO for short, is a health system model with the ability to provide and manage patients, in the continuum of care across different institutional settings, including at least ambulatory (outpatient) and inpatient hospital care and possibly post [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2010 by Editors
The ME-P is at your Service By Ann Miller RN MHA [Executive Director] Do you need to engage physicians and/or their related financial advisors and management consultants? Learn how to use the ME-P’s social media tools to conduct research and create product and brand awareness. Our ME-P Platform Accordingly, use the ME-P platform, surveys, polls, publishing, [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2010 by Editors
Improving Contact, Communication and Closure By Corporate Health Group [with ME-P modifications] It doesn’t matter if you’re cold-calling a doctor’s home or office, making a return visit or have a scheduled office appointment – if you call on the doctor prospect without knowing the MD, person or background of the physician’s office, it’s all an [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2010 by Editors
http://www.springerpub.com/product/9780826105752 Book Review and Order Placement http://www.springerpub.com/product/9780826105752 “Live” Website Community www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com About the Editor-in-Chief Dr. David Edward Marcinko, a former residency director, department chairman, and hospital vice-president in Atlanta GA, retired from clinical practice at the age of 45 after selling his Ambulatory Surgery Center to a public company. As a fellow and board [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2010 by Editors
Understanding Terms and Definitions By Shahid N. Shah MS As per the HHS rules, vocabulary standards are standardized nomenclatures and e-code sets used to describe clinical problems and procedures, medications, and allergies for eMRs. Some commons terms and definitions are listed below: Terms and Definitions ASTM’s CCR – for most of your basic patient summary [...]
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Posted on October 13, 2010 by Editors
It’s Not All about Electronic Records By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ [Editor-in-Chief] Introduction To understand the medical records revolution that has occurred this decade, put your self for a moment in the position of a third-party payer; ie; a private insurance company, Medicare or Medicaid etc. For example, you want to know if [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2010 by Editors
Government Operations and Taxes Dominate Agenda By The Children’s Home Society of Florida Foundation On September 29th, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3081 and provided for continuing federal government operations until December 3, 2010. President Barack Obama signed the bill on September 30th and government operations will continue until December using last year’s [...]
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Posted on October 11, 2010 by Editors
Financial Planning and Risk Management Handbooks for Doctors and Financial Advisors http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9780763745790/ http://www.jblearning.com/catalog/9780763733421/ Hope R. Hetico RN, MHA [Managing Editor] http://www.MedicalBusinessAdvisors.com
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Posted on October 11, 2010 by Editors
About the Institute for Clinical Systems Integration [ICSI] By Brent A. Metfessel MD, CMP™ www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com The Institute for Clinical Systems Integration (ICSI) is a strong proponent of the value of evidence-based clinical guidelines, and cites the following objections that make their implementation and acceptance more difficult. The Issues These issues generally apply to technology [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2010 by Editors
ADVERTISEMENT Early October 2010 Edition By Douglas B. Sherlock, CFA In this edition of Plan Management Navigator, we summarize the cost benchmarks of health plans focused on Medicaid. Administrative Expenses Core administrative expenses for selected Medicaid focused health plans was 8.4% of premiums in 2009, both overall and in the Medicaid HMO product itself. [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2010 by Editors
Tell Us What You Think? By Ann Miller RN MHA [Executive-Director] MarcinkoAdvisors@msn.com We believe we have the most intelligent readers and subscribers online today! And so, please take a few minutes and kindly let us know how and why you like or dislike this blog. Your opinions and feedback are very important to us. Please use [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2010 by Editors
A Historical Essay Review for all Stakeholders By Hope Rachel Hetico RN, MHA, CPHQ, CMP™ [Managing Editor] www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com Princeton PhD economist Alain Enthoven’s 1993 paper in Health Affairs on managed competition is almost two decades old (health care markets have changed greatly since then), but not in his prescription for change. Still Relevant Today Of course, [...]
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Posted on October 9, 2010 by Editors
A New Consumer Health Information Internet Portal By Staff Reporters Founded in 2009, Sharecare is an interactive social QA platform created by Jeff Arnold and Dr. Mehmet Oz in partnership with Harpo Studios, HSW International, Sony Pictures Television and Discovery Communications. Health Information Search Simplified Sharecare is designed to greatly simplify the search for [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2010 by Editors
ADVERTISEMENT New Partner Onboard By Staff Reporters Dear ME-P Readers and Subscribers, It is with great pleasure that the firm of D’Alessio & Tocci, LLP [Certified Public Accountants], welcomes its newest partner M. Howard Pell, CPA. About M. Howard Pell CPA Mr. Pell has over 30 years experience in public accounting. He was formally Director [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2010 by Editors
Is a Future Look Predicated on the Past? By Dr. Brian J. Knabe; CFP® CMP™ By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA CMP™ By Prof. Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA CPHQ CMP™ www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com With the passage of healthcare reform legislation, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, many questions remain regarding [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2010 by Editors
Collaborative Care – Not Yet So Collaborative Ann Miller RN MHA [Executive-Director] Dear ME-P Medical Readers Please send in your favorite story [serious, humorous, poignant, personal, etc] or anecdote on participatory medicine and electronic patient connectivity. If selected, it may be posted on the ME-P or used in our new book in a blinded [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2010 by Editors
Understanding the Potential Role of eMR Compromise By Render Davis MHA CHE www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com Whether it is an employer interested in the results of an employee’s health screening; an insurer attempting to learn more about an enrollee’s prior health history; the media in search of a story; or health planners examining the potential value of national [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2010 by Editors
Versus Healthcare Management By Eugene Schmuckler PhD, MBA www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com Many times, individuals or physicians will use the terms management and leadership synonymously. In actuality the terms have significantly different meanings. For example, Warren Bennis describes the difference between managers and leaders as “Managers do thing right, Leaders the right thing.” The Managers Managers are those [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2010 by Editors
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Posted on October 4, 2010 by Editors
Test-tube Baby Pioneer Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine By Staff Reporters STOCKHOLM — Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine today for developing in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples worldwide have children. Assessment Edwards, an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, started working on IVF [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2010 by Editors
A Poe-tic Tale: Gurus of Marketing By Somnath Basu PhD MBA What is in spending today that cannot wait? Surprisingly, the answer in not so much a financial one but much more one that is sociological and psychological in nature. Much of the answers lie in how we, as a society, react to the titillations carried [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2010 by Editors
About Consumer Confidence in October 2010 By Sean G. Todd, Esq., M. Tax, CFP©, CPA Physicians and all consumers are feeling less confident the longer our economy continues to recover slowly; in fact it is at the lowest level in 7 months [47.5]. Just so you understand the significance of this low number: a reading of 100 or [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2010 by Editors
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Posted on October 2, 2010 by Editors
Informed Healthcare Reform Dialogue By Staff Reporters Milliman is the host of this blog to encourage an informed dialogue about healthcare reform. Complications Healthcare is complicated, and there is no single, silver-bullet answer to the question of “How do we best improve the current system?” Assessment But, thoughtful discussions will help move reform [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2010 by Editors
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Posted on October 1, 2010 by Editors
ME-P Reader Participation Sought for the Corporate Health Group By Carolyn Merriman President, Corporate Health Group 401-886-5588 ext. 201 www.corporatehealthgroup.com Dear David and ME-P Subscribers, Readers and Visitors I hope this finds you well and busy. I am sure you are pleased with the publication of the updated text book. Thank you again for allowing [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2010 by Editors
ADVERTISEMENT Events-Planner: OCTOBER 2010 By 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 [...]
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