The Cost of Raising a Child

Very Expensive – Even for Physicians By creditsesame.com and Column Five   It’s no secret that raising a child is expensive. Now, there’s government data that tells us just how expensive — in striking detail. From birth through seventeen years of age, parents can expect to spend an average $205,960 to $475,680, depending on their [...]

Home Ownership in the US

A Market Turned Asunder By Protect Peace of Mind   Since 2008, the real estate market has been turned upside down and millions of people, including some doctors, throughout the U.S. have been affected by it. Assessment Home values have fallen and millions of jobs have been lost which means fewer Americans are able to [...]

Who Can’t Afford Health Care?

Expensive Even with Insurance By Thomas Porostock Health Care, even with insurance can be expensive, but what if you actually can’t afford medical care?   Conclusion And so, your thoughts and comments on this ME-P are appreciated. Feel free to review our top-left column, and top-right sidebar materials, links, URLs and related websites, too. Then, [...]

How to Regain a Charitable Exemption

Provisions of the Pension Protection Act By Children’s Home Society of Florida Foundation   Under provisions of the Pension Protection Act and other statutes, charities that failed to file the required IRS Form 990, Form 990EZ or Form 990-N for three years have lost exempt status. Most organizations impacted by this rule failed to file [...]

Is an MBA Worth It?

How about for Doctors?   By knewton.com via holykaw.alltop.com and Master Degree Online Is the value of a business degree worth the investment of time and money? The higher the degree the more marketable you will become! And, what does it really take to get an MBA?   Assessment As Publisher for the ME-P, and one who received his [...]

Physicians … Beware the Medical Management Consultants?

Desperate Doctors – Desperate Measures! By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP™ [Publisher-in-Chief] Are you a doctor desperate for practice enhancement solutions, but don’t know where to turn for help? Or, maybe you’ve already had a bad experience with a non-fiduciary business consultant, or management guru, more interested in his bottom line than your success? [...]

What Hurts Your Credit Score?

Facts that Doctors – and All of Us – Should Know   By freescore.com Learn about the biggest factors that can hurt your credit score, from declaring bankruptcy and foreclosure to missing credit card payments and blowing off your bills entirely. Conclusion And so, your thoughts and comments on this ME-P are appreciated. Feel free [...]

Private v. Public Healthcare

A Look Around the World By MPH Degree Programs.com    Conclusion And so, your thoughts and comments on this ME-P are appreciated. Feel free to review our top-left column, and top-right sidebar materials, links, URLs and related websites, too. Then, subscribe to the ME-P. It is fast, free and secure. Link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HealthcareFinancialsthePostForcxos Speaker: If you [...]

Proposed Regulations on HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures

New Rules and Regulations for Covered Healthcare Entities ADVERTISEMENT   By HCR@garfunkelwild.com Proposed regulations regarding HIPAA accounting of disclosures have been recently published and are open for public comments.  If enacted in their current form, the new regulations will require Covered Entities to make significant revisions to their current HIPAA procedures and may require modifications [...]

The Unsung Heroes of Medicine

Male Nurses   By onlinenursingschools.com via guyism.com Though male nurses make up a small minority of the nursing population, they still manage to be the butts of a majority of jokes when it comes to the medical profession. Assessment However, that shouldn’t be the case and our buddies over at Online Nursing Schools decided it [...]

Misdirection in Goldman Sachs’s Housing Short

Goldman Sachs appears to be trying to clear its name By Jesse Eisinger ProPublica, June 15, 2011, 3:10 pm   The compelling Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report on the financial crisis [1] is wrong, the bank says. Goldman Sachs didn’t have a Big Short against the housing market. About The Trade In this column, co-published [...]

Fun Facts for Father’s Day

Sunday June 19 2011   By bradsdeals.com Did you know that in the United States there are twice as many hardware stores and three times as many sporting good stores than men’s clothing stores? Or, that we spend most of our Father’s Day cash on taking Dad out to eat? Assessment Heck, did you know [...]

The Foreign Exchange Market Explained

Doctors are You Curious to Trade? From Infographics Archive   By CMSFOREX This infographic was developed by CMS Forex, a Forex industry leader, explains the basics of Forex and presents an excellent starting point for anyone who is curious about how to trade Forex. Assessment It’s also great for experienced Forex traders who want to [...]

A Review of HIPAA EHR Security Regulations

Focus on the Hospital Industry By Carol S. Miller BSN MBA www.HealthcareFinancials.com With the implementation of EMRs, Internet access, intranet availability throughout the hospital and physician complexes, as well as from home or any virtual site, the potential for security violations and associated vulnerabilities may have already caused serious harm to many hospitals and to [...]

How to Detect a Dishonest Mortgage Loan Officer

Some Red Flags for Doctors and Others to Consider From Infographics Archive   By creditsesame.com Mortgage loan officers with questionable ethical standards profited sweetly during the go-go years of the real estate boom, mostly by pushing risky loans to borrowers who didn’t necessarily have what it took to qualify for one the honest way. The [...]

Paper Medical Records Keep Good Dentists [and Physicians] Honest

Good Fences Keep Good Neighbors By D Kellus Pruitt DDS “Changes to an EHR (electronic health record) can go unnoticed and can be harder to trace than changes made to paper records” Sen. Mark Leno [D-San Francisco, the author of SB 850] Yesterday, Kendall Taggart posted “Bill would require ‘track changes’ on electronic medical records” [...]

IRS and the Affordable Care Act

Proud of Track Record By Children’s Home Society of Florida Foundation   IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on June 8 2011. He stated, “Mr. Chairman, the IRS is also proud of its implementation track record over the past few years.” IRS Successes There are [...]

The Cost of a Cared For-Nation

By Infographics Courtesy Medical Billing and Coding    There’s nothing cheap about medical care expenses. In fact, there’s only one constant when it comes to the price of healthcare and medical treatment: it’s expensive. Now Just imagine picking up the tab for an entire nation. The price of Medical services are rising at a faster [...]

Supply-Chain Management in Healthcare

Understanding Competitive Trends By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA [Editor-in-Chief] www.HealthcareFinancials.com Improved management of the supply chain has long been a focus in many industries; it is now having an impact on the healthcare industry. For instance, one study has shown that hospitals in the United States have been more successful than hospitals in France [...]

About the HumanCondition [HCX]

Transformational Experiences and Innovation in Healthcare By Staff Reporters To solve human problems HumanCondition [HCX] was created with the notion that in order to truly innovate – you need to be sensitive, yet take risks and make bold moves. Listen well, understand modern technologies and above all understand how to benefit from insightful, sensitive and [...]

Drugs and County Mental Health Programs

On Medication and Pharmaceutical Direction By Carol S. Miller BSN, MBA, PMP Two issues related to medication have an impact on county mental health programs. The first is the new emphasis on drug therapy and the second is targeted marketing by pharmaceutical companies of newer, more costly drugs. First In the past, psychiatrists focused on [...]

On Rising Unemployment

Will Tax Reform Create Jobs? By Children’s Home Society of Florida Foundation   With a jobs report showing 54,000 new jobs last month, unemployment moved back up to 9.1%. Both parties are in agreement that the current economy is not producing a sufficient number of new jobs to reduce the unemployment rate. House Ways and [...]

“Meaningful Use” for Ambulatory Care Medical Practices

EHR Objectives and Measures By Shahid N. Shah MS    For ambulatory care practices and physicians there are about 25 objectives and measures that must be met to become a “meaningful user”. Keep in mind that meaningful use is not tied to a certified EHR alone; in fact, unless you use the EHR properly and [...]

Doctors on Drugs

By Infographics Courtesy Medical Billing and Coding   Increasing in costs each year, prescription pills are one of the most profitable and dominating industries in the nation, with annual sales in the hundreds of billions. Prescribed medications constitute a significant bulk of work that medical coders must transcribe. Shockingly, the prescription pill industry has questionable [...]

Dentistry’s Low Hanging Fruit – Podcast on “What We Fix First”

An Internet Radio Interview with a ME-P “Mover and Shaker” By Ann Miller RN MHA and The Whole Tooth As announced last week, we are privileged to have Dr. Darrell Pruitt share his topic is “Dentistry’s Low Hanging Fruit – What We Fix First”. About Dr. Pruitt If you know Dr. Pruitt thru this ME-P, [...]

Events Planner: June 2011

ADVERTISEMENT Events-Planner: JUNE 2011 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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