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Posted on April 23, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
A Proposal for Now
By Joel Lee
President Biden will soon propose nearly doubling the capital gains tax for wealthy people to 39.6%, according to Bloomberg.
PS: Wealthy people = individuals earning $1 million or more.
Biden is expected to announce the tax hike next week as part of the pitch for his “American Families Plan,” the highly anticipated sequel to the $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal he released a few weeks ago.
To pay for the first plan, which includes spending on bridges and broadband, Biden wants to hike taxes on corporations.
To pay for his second proposal, which includes spending on childcare and paid leave for workers, he wants to hike taxes on wealthy investors.
NOTE: Physicians and all investors knew this dramatic hike was coming (the proposal was in candidate Biden’s tax plan), but the report jarred Wall Street nonetheless. It could lead to a lot of asset sales before 2021’s out.
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Posted on April 22, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
ON ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS
[By Staff Reporters]
What happens when you’re a healthcare policy wonk and the pilot study for your pet program has failed miserably? You declare “Success!” in the editorial pages of the New England Journal of Medicine and demand that the program become nationwide and mandatory.
I kid you not. This is exactly what happens.
Thankfully, colleague Mike Accad MD and Anish Koka are vigilant and explain the blatant obfuscations and manipulations that the central planners engage in to have their way.
Posted on April 21, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
Dear Dr. David Edward Marcinko,
We are pleased to present the May 2021 issue of AJPH. It features a special dossier on “COVID-19/Public Health Preparedness and Response” with research and perspectives on the importance of strengthening public health systems before disasters strike.
The issue also includes research on anti-Asian bias, use of cannabis for harm reduction among people at high risk for overdose, the changing epidemiology of hepatitis C infections in the U.S. and much more.
Here are a few of the many articles in the May 2021 issue.
Posted on April 20, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
By HANS DUVEFELT
For a couple of decades now, healthcare has professed to be patient centered.
But the prevailing culture of “quality” (and the reality of getting paid for what you do) has us spending at least half our time documenting for outsiders, who are non-clinicians, the substance and value of our patient interactions. That means our patients get half of our attention and others get half.
Posted on April 15, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
HOLISTIC DIGITAL HEALTH PLATFORMS
Providers and payers alike recognize the impact chronic conditions have on member and patient health and healthcare expenditure. An easy-to-use digital health platform that successfully marries IoT sensors, data visualization, and AI can be a powerful tool in the management and prevention of chronic conditions.
And, when “high tech” tools are combined with the “high touch” elements such as digital health coaching, members and patients are truly empowered and supported.
Are you providing a holistic digital health platform to your members and patients?
Posted on April 13, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
62% of health care workers say COVID-19 is impacting mental health
The coronavirus pandemic has had a major impact on the mental health of frontline health care workers. Highlights from the new KFF/Washington Post Frontline Health Care Workers Survey, finds that among frontline healthcare workers:
• A majority (62%) say worry or stress related to COVID-19 has a negative impact on their mental health. • More than half (56%) say that worry or stress related to COVID-19 has caused them to experience trouble with sleeping or sleeping too much (47%), frequent headaches or stomachaches (31%), or increased alcohol or drug use (16%). • 13% say they have received mental health services or medication specifically due to worry or stress related to COVID-19 and an additional one in five (18%) say they thought they might need such services, but did not get them.
Posted on April 13, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
CREATING A MEDICAL PRACTICE COMPLIANCE PROGRAM
[Accountability, Processes and Implementation]
Carol S. Miller RN MBA
Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA
In general terms, healthcare entity or medical practice compliance is the organization’s adherence to rules, regulations, guidelines, and specifications relevant to performing its day-to-day operations.
This includes the observance of all applicable Medicare billing guidelines; state, local, and Federal regulations impacting the practice; ethical, privacy and security requirements; and the steps and processes to avoid potential fraud and abuse.
Due to the increasing number of regulations placed on medical practices and the need for operational transparency, provider offices are adopting the use of consolidated and harmonized sets of compliance controls to ensure that all necessary governance requirements can be met without unnecessary duplication of effort or too extensive processes that could take away from patient care.
As we complete our first quarter-century of service to the podiatric community, it is only fitting to update our colleagues of the extreme changes taking place in the individual board exam testing space.
Some of these changes are perfunctory with little practical impact; while others are so profound as to cause extreme consternation in the practitioner community writ-large.
For example:
Nomenclature:
FROM: American Board of Podiatric Surgery -TO- American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery.
FROM: American Board of Primary Podiatric Medicine and Orthopedics -TO- American Board of Foot and Ankle Medicine and Orthopedics.
The Surgery Certification and Qualification tests now rely less on rote memorization and more on applied cognitive content, and may be very different from any other test you have ever taken, to date [ie., multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank].
The Primary Medicine and Orthopedics Certification and Qualification tests now rely less on rote memorization and more on applied cognitive content, and may be very different from any test you have ever taken, to date [ie., multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank].
Traditional human ORAL questions have been usurped by [non-human] computerized Clinical Pathology Conference [CPC] queries; AKA: Computer Based Testing [CBT] or Clinical Scenario Questions [CSQs].
American Board of Medical Specialities now includes over a dozen general categories; including podiatry.
The Re-Certification tests for Maintenance of Certification [MOC] now rely much less on rote memory, as in the past; and more on deeply experiential content. It is also becoming more competitive, to-date.
So-called “wrong” questions by-design are called psychological “stressor questions” and are used to evoke emotional volatility and waste precious time. So, BEWARE!. Moreover; the so-called “points-to-pass” AND “points-to-fail” philosophy may be re-emerging.
This is the dynamic PODIATRY PREP difference [Unique Competitive Advantage] between our customized Study Guide File Programs with customized board exam preparation content, and the static general “off-shelf” books or Web guides of the past; and/or traditional CEU educational seminars.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS: Traditional Rote ISTITUTIONAL RESIDENCY Questions versus Experiential and Cognitive Styled INDIVIDUAL PRACTITIONER [CBT/CBS] Formats
Posted on April 10, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
Electronic dental records – why bother?
[By Darrell Pruitt DDS]
“Clinician EHR Workload, Cognitive Efforts Double After EHR Adoption – Providers reported significant cognitive workload increases, such as higher levels of frustration and mental demands following EHR adoption”
Jason: “Clinician workload and cognitive efforts doubled after the first six months of EHR adoption, according to a study published in Applied Ergonomics. Clinicians also experienced increased EHR workload over 2.5 years following EHR implementation. This adds to the evidence showing a connection between EHR usability and clinician burnout. EHR usability issues typically increase cognitive load and errors, leading to patient safety issues. An increase in cognitive load adds to EHR use, which then leads to clinician burnout.”
Compared to physicians, the business of dentistry is like a lemonade stand. Electronic dental records offer only convenience – expensive, complicated and dangerous convenience.
On March 11, 2021, President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). The law looks to alleviate the burden felt by the millions of people who lost their employer-sponsored health insurance over the first six months of the pandemic and assist the hardest-hit communities through the extension of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) subsidies, expanding Medicaid coverage, increasing funding for behavioral health, ramping up COVID-19 vaccines and testing, providing financial relief for rural providers, and enacting other individual and healthcare system protections. (Read more…)
Posted on March 31, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
Right Side VERSUS Left Side Cerebral Vascular Accidents
[By staff reporters]
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A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of your brain is interrupted or reduced, depriving brain tissue of oxygen and nutrients [occlusive and hemorrhagic]. Within minutes, brain cells begin to die.A stroke is a medical emergency. Prompt treatment is crucial. Early action can minimize brain damage and potential complications.The good news is that strokes can be treated and prevented, and many fewer Americans die of stroke now than in the past.
Posted on March 29, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
By staff reporters
Bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression, is a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression).
When you become depressed, you may feel sad or hopeless and lose interest or pleasure in most activities. When your mood shifts to mania or hypomania (less extreme than mania), you may feel euphoric, full of energy or unusually irritable. These mood swings can affect sleep, energy, activity, judgment, behavior and the ability to think clearly.
Episodes of mood swings may occur rarely or multiple times a year. While most people will experience some emotional symptoms between episodes, some may not experience any.
Although bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition, you can manage your mood swings and other symptoms by following a treatment plan. In most cases, bipolar disorder is treated with medications and psychological counseling (psychotherapy).
Posted on March 27, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
MSL Day 2021
[By staff reporters]
A medical science liaison is a healthcare consulting professional who is employed by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and managed care companies. Other job titles for medical science liaisons may include medical liaisons, clinical science liaisons, medical science managers, regional medical scientists, and regional medical directors.
Posted on March 7, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
LAUGHTER
By staff reporters
Laughter is a physical reaction in humans consisting usually of rhythmical, often audible contractions of the diaphragm and other parts of the respiratory system resulting most commonly in forms of “hee-hee” or “ha-ha”.
Posted on March 3, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
WHAT IS PHYSICIAN BOARD CERTIFICATION AND BOARD ELIGIBILITY?
Courtesy: https://lnkd.in/drrYKeT
BOARD CERTIFICATION (Boarded, Diplomate): A doctor who is board certified has pursued advanced training in his or her specialty and has passed a qualifying examination; a doctor who is board eligible has received the training but has not taken or passed the exam. DHIMC: https://lnkd.in/e9AmEhd
BOARD ELIGIBLE: Describes a physician who is eligible to take the specialty board examination by virtue of being graduated from an approved medical school, completing a specific type and length of training, and practicing for a specified amount of time. Some HMOs and other health facilities accept board eligibility as equivalent to board certification, significant in that many managed care companies restrict referrals to physicians without certification. FOREWORD:https://lnkd.in/gywd_Ad
Posted on March 1, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
Rare Disease Day 2021
[By staff reporters]
February 28th 2021 was the fourteenth international Rare Disease Day coordinated by EURORDIS. On and around this day hundreds of patient organizations from countries and regions all over the world held awareness-raising activities.
Posted on February 27, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
FINANCIAL OPINIONS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE FAIR MARKET VALUE [FMV]
Courtesy: https://lnkd.in/eBf-4vY Plastic Surgery-Medical Practice Worth, Valuation, Sales & Succession Planning
For doctor-colleagues, buying or selling a practice may be the biggest financial transaction of their lives. Reasons for appraising practice worth include: sales, merger, succession, retirement and estate planning; partnership disputes and divorce; or as an important tool for organic growth and strategic planning.
However, the transaction is fraught with many pitfalls to avoid and no medical specialty seems immune; especially when it comes to contentious fair market value [FMV] appraisals.
DEFINITION: A member of a securities exchange with the essential function of maintaining a fair and orderly market, insofar as reasonably practicable, in the stocks in which he is registered as a specialist. To do this, s/he must buy and sell for his own account and risk, to a reasonable degree, when there is a temporary disparity between supply and demand. In order to equalize trends, he must buy or sell counter to the direction of the market. DHEF:https://lnkd.in/dqdbWM9 FOREWORD: https://lnkd.in/ecwZWxu
At all times the specialist must put his customer’s interest before his own. All specialists are registered with the exchange, but are not employees of that exchange. Your thoughts are appreciated.
Posted on February 17, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
RED CROSS DAY
On this day in 1863, Henry Dunant founded the Red Cross, which would go onto receive the Nobel Peace Prize three times.
During the Battle of Solferino in the Franco-Austrian war, Swiss businessman Dunant was shocked to witness tens of thousands dead or wounded left on the field after just one day of fighting.
After this experience, on 17 February 1863, he decided to form the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva Switzerland with four other Swiss businessmen to take care of casualties and prisoners of war. In the following year, the first Geneva Convention was adopted, “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field.”
The First World War was an enormous challenge for the organisation. At the outbreak of the war in 1914 medical staff from all over the world gathered to take care of the many wounded. One of them was the young Ernest Hemingway (awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1954), employed as an ambulance driver on the Austrian-Italian front. The experience later inspired him to write the novel ‘Farewell to Arms’.
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Henry Dunant was awarded the first ever Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 for his humanitarian work.
The organization he founded received the prize three times.
Posted on February 9, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
FINANCIAL OPINIONS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE FAIR MARKET VALUE [FMV] Courtesy: https://lnkd.in/eBf-4vY Medical Practice Worth, Valuation, Sales and Succession Planning
Posted on February 5, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
NATIONAL WEAR RED DAY 2021
National Wear Red Day for the year 2021 is celebrated / observed on Friday, February 5th.
Every year the first Friday of February has been dedicated to National Wear Red Day as an awareness day for American women to understand their number one health threat – heart disease.
Posted on February 1, 2021 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™
DISCLOSURE OF CASH PRICE
SECTION 1.
(a) In this section, “hospital” means a hospital: (1) licensed under Chapter 241; or (2) owned or operated by this state or an agency of this state. (b) A hospital shall disclose the hospital’s cash price for each health care service regularly provided by the hospital. The required disclosure must be made: (1) by posting the prices on the Internet website of the hospital; or (2) if the hospital does not have an Internet website, by providing the prices in writing on request to any person.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
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