What’s in a Medical Practice Professional Name?

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

NAMING YOUR MEDICAL PRACTICE

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP™

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A medical practice name should be easy to say, hear, spell, and remember-unlike prescription drugs. It should be appealing and resonate with your target patient base. Here are some common naming methods for small to medical medical practices use.

We, and most experts, recommend against naming a new medical practice with your own name because it limits future growth and you may lose the benefits that a more descriptive name would bring. Your business name will likely be incorporated using your practice’s name, although larger (multi-specialty group) practices may use a more general name for the entire enterprise; and then having multiple “dba’s” (”Doing Business As”) for the individual practices under the umbrella.

It is important to discuss these options with an attorney if you believe this arrangement has advantage; others find it confusing. Usually, your medical specialty can be used as a base-name, and then some
descriptor to differentiate it from local competing practices. Selecting a name like “The Medical Allegiance Partners” does not indicate that medicine is your service. On the other hand, naming your practice “Dental Associates of Your Town” won’t be helpful to patients looking for you in the yellow pages, or internet search engines, and finding your practice listed just before “Your Town Dental Partners”. It is therefore good to be cognizant of your competitors’ names when choosing your own.

MORE: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/12/07/how-to-name-your-new-medical-practice/

And, you should select a name that will hopefully grow with you into a larger enterprise.

For example: You are a solo doctor, but are pretty sure you’ll take on one or more partners in the future? Then besides not naming your practice after yourself, you may choose to add “Group” or “Partners” to your name initially even if you’re the only doctor.

Moreover, is there any possibility you’ll open a second office in another town? Naming your medical practice something like the ”Apple Street Internal Medicine Group” may not make sense when your second office is opened on Main Street in a nearby city, in a few years.

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RETAIN A PHYSICIAN COACH: “From Chaos to Calm” in 2023?

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Ann Miller RN MHA

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“FROM CHAOS-TO-CALM”

If you’re looking at this tab, chances are you are fed up, burned out, seeking better work-life balance, looking for a new non-clinical career, thinking of retirement, or all of the above. Perhaps you are just looking to regain the joy and meaning in your medical career.

No worries! You may have come to the right place.

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COACHING: Careers

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Physician Assets, Liabilities and Personal Net Worth

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

How are Assets and Liabilities Related to Doctor Net Worth?

Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA

Before the relationship among financial assets, liabilities and net worth can be examined, some based definitions must be understood.

LINK: http://www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org

[A] Short-Term Assets

Short-term goals (less than 12 months) require liquidity or short-term assets. These assets include cash, checking and saving accounts, certificates of deposit, and money market accounts. These accounts have two things in common. The principal is guaranteed from risk of loss, and pay a very low interest rate. As an investment, they are considered substandard and one would only keep what is actually needed for liquidity purposes in these accounts.

[B] Long-Term Assets

Longer-term assets (more than 12 months) include real estate, mutual funds, retirement plans, stocks, and life insurance cash value policies. Bonds may also be an appropriate long-term investment asset for a number of reasons, for example, if you are seeking a regular and reliable stream of income or if you have no immediate need for the amount of the principal invested. Bonds also can be used to diversify your portfolio and reducing the overall risk that is inherent in stock investments.

[C] Short-Term Liabilities

Short-term liabilities (less than 12 months) include credit card debt, utility bills, and auto loans or leasing. When a young doctor leaves residency and starts practice, the foremost concern is student debt. This is an unsecured debt that is not backed by any collateral, except a promise to pay. There are recourses that an unsecured creditor can take to recoup the bad debt. Usually, if the unsecured creditor is successful obtaining a judgment, it can force wages to be garnished, and the Department of Education can withhold up to ten percent of a wages without first initiating a lawsuit, if in default. It is also probable that young medical professionals have been holding at least one credit card since their sophomore year in college. Credit card companies consider college student the most lucrative target market and medical students hold their first card for an average of fifteen years. There are several other types of other unsecured debt, including department store cards, professional fees, medical and dental bills, alimony, child support, rent; utility bills, personal loans from relatives, and health club dues, to name a few.

[D] Long-Term Liabilities

A secured debt, on the other hand, is debt that is pledged by a specific property. This is a collateralized loan. Generally, the purchased item is pledged with the proceeds of the loan. This would include long-term liabilities (more than 12 months) such as a mortgage, home equity loan, or a car loan. Although the creditor has the ability to take possession of your property in order to recover a bad debt, it is done very rarely. A creditor is more interested in recovering money. Sometimes, when borrowing money, there may be a requirement to pledge assets that are owned prior to the loan.

For example, a personal loan from a finance company requires that you pledge all personal property such as your car, furniture, and equipment. The same property may become subject to a judicial lien if you are sued and a judgment is made against you. In this case, you would not be able to sell or pledge these assets until the judgment is satisfied.

A common example of a lien would be from unpaid federal, state or local taxes. Doctors can be found personally liable for unpaid payroll taxes of employees in their professional corporations. Be aware that some assets and liabilities defy short or long-term definition. When this happens, simply be consistent in your comparison of financial statements, over time.

[E] Personal Physician Net Worth

Once the value of all personal assets and liabilities is known, net worth can be determined with the following formula: Net worth = assets minus liabilities. Obviously, higher is better. In The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas H. Stanley, PhD, and William H. Danko give the following benchmark for net worth accumulation. Although conservative for physicians of a past generation, it may be more applicable in the future because of current managed care environment.

Here is the guide: Multiple your age by your annual pre-tax income from all sources – except inheritances – and divide by ten.

Real-Life Medical Example: As an HMO pediatrician, Dr. Curtis earned $ 60,000 last year. So, if she is 35, her net worth should be at least $ 210,000.

How do you get to that point? In a word, consume less, save more and watch the student loans. Stanley and Danko found that the typical millionaire set aside 15 percent of earned income annually and has enough invested to survive 10 years, at current income levels if he stopped working. Now, if Dr. Curtis lost her job tomorrow, how long could she pay herself the same salary?

[F] Common Liability Management Mistakes

A common liability management mistake is not recognizing when you are heading for trouble. If doctors are paying only the minimum payments on credit card debt, while continuing to charge purchases at a rate faster than the pay-down, trouble is brewing. If you don’t categorize your debt, you could find yourself paying down non-priority debt while ignoring priority debt.

A priority debt is one that is essential or subject to serious consequences, if not paid. Examples include rent, mortgage payments, utility bills, child support, car payments, unpaid taxes, and other secured debt. If in one month, a doctor had to choose between paying his accounting bill or his rent, it would be essential to pay the rent.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/082610254

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On Merging Medical Practices

Posted on September 27, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP™

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Merging Medical Practices

There are only three possibilities if you want to go into practice for yourself; buy a practice; franchise a business, or start one. However, if you have an existing practice, merging it to form a larger entity can be a satisfying experience. The pace of practice mergers is accelerating, but it is often difficult to make an informed judgment about synergy. Mergers make sense only if the resulting value is more than additive to the original; not duplicative.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

Unfortunately, far too many mergers fail to create, or actually destroy existing value. So, look for complimentary processes, personalities and ideas. In a merger of two existing practices, there is no substitute for personal interaction between employees and physician-management. This creates cross-pollination and new ideas in everything from service-lines and the patient production process, to marketing and finance, and to proprietary and intellectual rights. Most importantly, it allows
diversity of ideas.

And so, the following are questions to consider when contemplating a medical practice
merger:

 What are the risks of this transaction and how are they mitigated?
 Will talented employees be retained on both sides and can an exodus be
prevented?
 Are the specific liabilities of each practice known? Remember, the farther outside
your area of specialty or expertise, the greater the risk of being wrong.
 Will I appraise each practice independently, and correctly?
 Where will employee allegiance rest?
 What is the name, and logo, of the new entity? Who will be the CEO?

Vertical Integration: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2023/04/14/integration-as-a-competitive-strategy-in-healthcare-reform/

More: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/06/19/healthcare-mergers-acquisitions-2021-in-review/

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CERTIFIED MEDICAL PLANNER™: Helping Physicians Financially Thrive to Avoid the “Doctor Effect”

Posted on September 26, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko, MBA CMP™

CEO: D.E. Marcinko & Associates, Inc.

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BEWARE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS

Several years ago a group of highly trusted and deeply experienced financial services professionals and estate planners noted that far too many of their mature physician clients, using traditional stock brokers, management consultants and financial advisors, seemed to be less successful than those who went it alone. These Do-it-Yourselfers [DIYs] had setbacks and made mistakes, for sure. But, the ME Inc doctors seemed to learn from their mistakes and did not incur the high management and service fees demanded from general or retail one-size-fits-all “advisors.”

In fact, an informal inverse relationship was noted, and dubbed the “Doctor Effect.” In others words, the more consultants an individual doctor retained; the less well they did in all disciplines of the financial planning and medical practice management, continuum.

Of course, the reason for this discrepancy eluded many of them as Wall Street brokerages and wire-houses flooded the media with messages, infomercials, print, radio, TV, texts, tweets, and internet ads to the contrary. Rather than self-learn the basics, the prevailing sentiment seemed to purse the holy grail of finding the “perfect financial advisor.” This realization was a confirmation of the industry culture which seemed to be: Bread for the advisor – Crumbs for the client!

And so, at D.E. Marcinko & Associates, our informed cadre’ of technology focused and highly educated doctors, nurses, financial advisors, attorneys, accountants, psychologists and educational visionaries decided there must be a better way for healthcare colleagues to receive financial planning advice, products and related management services within a culture of fiduciary responsibility.

We trust you agree with this ME Inc, and Certified Medical Planner™ consulting philosophy, as illustrated on our website.

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RISK MANAGEMENT FOR PHYSICIANS

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FAIR MARKET VALUATION DETERMINATION [FMV]

Posted on September 25, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

MEDICAL PRACTICE OR AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER

D.E. MARCINKO ASSOCIATES, Inc.

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FAIR MARKET VALUATION DETERMINATION

There are a Myriad of Reasons for Obtaining a Medical Practice Valuation and Appraisal Engagement:

Outright selling-buying
Partnership and Associate buy-in / buy-out
Mergers and Acquisitions
Organic growth tracking
Hospital integrations
Private and public reporting
Financing and Venture Capital
Estate and tax planning

MORE: https://marcinkoassociates.com/fmv-appraisals/

Our Capability

We have the ability to provide extensive analysis of value components in healthcare practices and provide appraisals based on business, economic, and market conditions. This involves detailed examination of financials and clinical data in the context of numerous factors including medical specialty, physician supply and demand, payer mix, regulatory environment, regional dynamics, and risk premium.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

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MARCINKO & Associates, Inc.

Posted on September 24, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE ASSIST MEDICAL COLLEAGUES

Hard Business Advice AND Personal Lifestyle Coaching

http://www.MARCINKOASSOCIATES.com

By Ann Miller RN MHA CMP™

At Marcinko & Associates our clients traditionally include physicians [MD, MBBS and DO], dentists [DDS and DMD], podiatrists [DPM], Registered Nurses [RNs], Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists [CRNA], Physician Assistants [PA] and Nurse Practitioners [NP]. A growing cohort of clients include medical technologists, physical, speech and occupational therapists, etc.

The above are naturally segregated into three career tranches: 1. New practitioners, 2] Mid-Career practitioners and 3] Mature practitioners. We serve them all and are fully prepared for any special needs situation that may arise in any tranche [death, divorce, adverse risk event and/or bankruptcy, etc].

Marcinko & Associates understands the complexity of financial and non-financial deal terms because we are also doctors. Our “hard” knowledge of your business comes from being actual healthcare facility owners, operators and medical practitioners [with additional professional licenses and expertise] enabling us to effectively analyze your business, take corrective measures and present your healthcare entity in the best possible and accurate light.

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But, if you’re looking at this website, chances are you are fed up, burned out, seeking practice management techniques or a better work-life balance. Or, you are looking for a new non-clinical career, thinking of finance, investing, retirement, or all of the above. Perhaps you are just looking to regain the joy and meaning in your medical or professional career? This is known as “soft” psychology, coaching, personal consulting or fraternal advice.

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Regardless, of your “soft” personal or “hard” corporate needs, our transparent Fees for Service [FFS] model is moderated for all colleagues based on the acuity and urgency of their engagements. Reduced rates and/or limited charity work may also be possible.

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OPEN LETTER: MARCINKO Associates, Inc.

Posted on September 23, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

MISSION & PHYSICIAN COACHING STATEMENT

Open Letter from the CEO

Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP™

http://www.MarcinkoAssociates.com

ALL MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE COLLEAGUES

Did you know that at MARCINKO & Associates, all medical colleagues throughout the United States may contact us when they are considering the sale, purchase, strategic operating improvement, merger, acquisition and/or other financial business or related personal financial planning transaction?

MORE: https://marcinkoassociates.com/welcome-medical-colleagues/

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Our difference is “hard” knowledge and insider financial guidance that helps medical colleagues, nurses, private practitioners, clinics, ambulatory surgery, radiology and outpatient wound care centers realize their ultimate economic goals. This typically includes managerial and cost accounting, financial ratio analysis, fair market valuation business appraisals, business plan creation and personal financial planning.

MORE: https://marcinkoassociates.com/fmv-appraisals/

Our “expert witness” business litigation support service and divorce mediation, arbitration, asset division, settlement and second opinion offerings are always available, as well.

MORE: https://marcinkoassociates.com/expert-witness/

And, our “soft” skill professional career guidance and mentoring center includes executive coaching, consulting and mentoring advisory programs for stressed, conflicted or burned-out physicians and medical practitioners.

Our DIY BOOKS:

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COACHING: Careers

Most importantly, our professional fees are reasonable and always transparent.

MARCINKO & Associates also serves universities, medical, business, graduate and nursing schools; physicians, dentists, podiatrists, optometrists and legal societies. This includes accountants, financial service providers, wealth and hedge fund managers, emerging entities, hospitals, CEOs and their BODs, the press, media and related organizations.

MORE: https://marcinkoassociates.com/speaking-seminars/

Contact us for an educational white-paper on most any topic.

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Now, please review our website to learn more.

And, always retain us when needed.

How May We Serve You?

DAVID EDWARD MARCINKO

email: MarcinkoAdvisors@msn.com

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FAIR MARKET VALUATION DETERMINATION [FMV]

Posted on September 22, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

MEDICAL PRACTICE OR AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER

D.E. MARCINKO ASSOCIATES, Inc.

http://www.MARCINKOASSOCIATES.com

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FAIR MARKET VALUATION DETERMINATION

There are a Myriad of Reasons for Obtaining a Medical Practice Valuation and Appraisal Engagement:

Outright selling-buying
Partnership and Associate buy-in / buy-out
Mergers and Acquisitions
Organic growth tracking
Hospital integrations
Private and public reporting
Financing and Venture Capital
Estate and tax planning

MORE: https://marcinkoassociates.com/fmv-appraisals/

Our Capability

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

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D.E. MARCINKO & Associates, Inc.

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE ASSIST MEDICAL COLLEAGUES

Hard Business Advice AND Personal Lifestyle Coaching

http://www.MARCINKOASSOCIATES.com

By Ann Miller RN MHA CMP™

At D.E. Marcinko & Associates our clients traditionally include physicians [MD, MBBS and DO], dentists [DDS and DMD], podiatrists [DPM], Registered Nurses [RNs], Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists [CRNA], Physician Assistants [PA] and Nurse Practitioners [NP]. A growing cohort of clients include medical technologists, physical, speech and occupational therapists, etc.

D.E. Marcinko & Associates understands the complexity of financial and non-financial deal terms because we are also doctors. Our “hard” knowledge of your business comes from being actual healthcare facility owners, operators and medical practitioners [with additional professional licenses and expertise] enabling us to effectively analyze your business, take corrective measures and present your healthcare entity in the best possible and accurate light.

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http://www.DavidEdwardMarcinko.com

CONTACT US TODAY – THRIVE TOMORROW!

Suite #5901 Wilbanks Drive

Norcross, Georgia USA 30092-1141

email: MarcinkoAdvisors@msn.com

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IPOs: More Caution Ahead

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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From 2020 to 2021, when VC money was cheap and tech IPOs were hot, the tech companies that went public via IPO were mostly growth-focused unicorns that had yet to see any profits. But Instacart, which has turned a profit for the last five quarters, is something different.

Chip design company Arm, which debuted last week in the year’s biggest IPO, was the first venture-capital-backed startup to go public in the US since December 2021. It may have broken the ice, but Instacart is the next big test.

However, being profitable and being valuable aren’t the same thing. In 2020, investors valued Instacart at $39 billion, its highest valuation and roughly $29 billion more than what it’s expected to be worth to investors today.

Late-stage investors in Instacart, such as Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, stand to lose 40% or more.
Sequoia Capital—Instacart’s largest external shareholder—was also one of its earliest. Its initial $8 million investment in 2013 is worth $1 billion today, but its later investment of $50 million in 2021 has shrunk to $12 million.

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D.E. MARCINKO & Associates, Inc.

Posted on September 19, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE ASSIST MEDICAL COLLEAGUES

Hard Business Advice AND Personal Lifestyle Coaching

http://www.MARCINKOASSOCIATES.com

By Ann Miller RN MHA CMP™

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http://www.DavidEdwardMarcinko.com

CONTACT US TODAY – THRIVE TOMORROW!

Suite #5901 Wilbanks Drive

Norcross, Georgia USA 30092-1141

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The HEALTH DICTIONARY SERIES

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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HEALTH DICTIONARY SERIES

By Ann Miller RN MHA

[An Internet WIKI CROWD-SOURCED Curation Project]*

To keep up with the ever-changing healthcare industrial complex, we must learn new definitions and re-learn old terminology in order to correctly apply it to practice. By aggregating the most up-to-date abbreviations, acronyms, definitions and terms, the Health Dictionary Series offers a wealth of information to help understand the ever-changing terms-of-art in healthcare today.

Each 10,000 item handbook is essential for doctors, nurses, benefits managers and insurance agents, CPAs, and administrators; as well as graduate and under graduate students and professors. Our goal to for each dictionary to be designated as a Doody’s Core Title.

Dictionary of Health Insurance and Managed Care

With more than 8,000 definitions, 4,000 abbreviations and acronyms, and a 3,000 item oeuvre of resources, readings, and nomenclature derivatives, this dictionary covers the Medicare, managed care and Medicaid, private insurance, Veteran’s Administration and PP-ACA language of the entire health and long-term care insurance sector.

Dictionary of Health Economics and Finance

Health economics and finance is an integral component of the health care industrial complex. Its language is a diverse and broad-based concept covering many other industries: accounting, mathematics, the actuarial sciences, stochastics and statistics, salary reimbursements, physician payments, compensation and forecasting are all commingled arenas.

Dictionary of Health Information Technology Security

There is a myth that all healthcare stakeholders understand the meaning of information technology jargon. In truth, the vernacular of contemporary systems is unique, and often misused or misunderstood. Moreover, emerging Heath Information Technology (HIT) thru the HITECG initiatives; in the guise of terms, definitions, acronyms, abbreviations and standards; often puts the non-expert in a position of maximum uncertainty and minimum productivity.

*NOTE: A wiki website allows users to add or update content using their browser thru a hosted server created by the collaborative effort of site visitors. The Hawaiian term “wiki wiki” means “super fast.”

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OPEN LETTER: MARCINKO Associates, Inc.

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

MISSION STATEMENT

Open Letter from the CEO

Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP™

http://www.MarcinkoAssociates.com

ALL MEDICAL AND HEALTHCARE COLLEAGUES

MORE: https://marcinkoassociates.com/welcome-medical-colleagues/

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Our “expert witness” business litigation support service and divorce mediation, arbitration, asset division, settlement and second opinion offerings are always available, as well.

MORE: https://marcinkoassociates.com/expert-witness/

And, our “soft” skill professional career guidance and mentoring center includes executive coaching, consulting and mentoring advisory programs for stressed, conflicted or burned-out physicians and medical practitioners.

COACHING: Careers

Most importantly, our professional fees are reasonable and always transparent.

MORE: https://marcinkoassociates.com/speaking-seminars/

Contact us for an educational white-paper on most any topic.

MORE: https://marcinkoassociates.com/case-studies/

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Now, please review our website to learn more.

And, always retain us when needed.

How May We Serve You?

DAVID EDWARD MARCINKO

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What is Financial CARRIED INTEREST?

Posted on September 5, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

A TAX LOOPHOLE?

BY DR. DAVID E. MARCINKO MBA CMP®

SPONSOR: http://www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org

Carried interest, or carry, in finance, is a share of the profits of an investment paid to the investment manager in excess of the amount that the manager contributes to the partnership, specifically in alternative investments (private equity and hedge funds).

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource/Title/0826102549

In small businesses that are not blind pools, such as single property real estate, the investment manager often funds the business prior to the formation of the partnership. It is a performance fee, rewarding the manager for enhancing performance. The structure also takes advantage of favorable tax treatment in the United States.

However, critics of carried interest want it to be reclassified as ordinary income – not capital gains – to be taxed at the ordinary income tax rate. Private equity advocates argue that the increased tax will subdue the incentive to take the kind of risk that is necessary to invest in and manage companies to profitability.

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What is the carried interest tax loophole?

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TAXATION: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-carried-interest-and-how-it-taxed

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MARCINKO & Associates, Inc.

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE ASSIST MEDICAL COLLEAGUES

Hard Business Advice AND Personal Lifestyle Coaching

http://www.MARCINKOASSOCIATES.com

By Ann Miller RN MHA CMP™

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Suite #5901 Wilbanks Drive

Norcross, Georgia USA 30092-1141

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DAILY UPDATE: UBS and the Markets

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

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UBS, the Swiss lender posted the highest quarterly profit ever for a bank in Q2—$29 billion—thanks to its controversial rescue of rival Credit Suisse in March. That acquisition is looking like “one of the biggest steals in financial history,” per the Financial Times, considering the skimpy $3.6 billion price UBS paid for Credit Suisse. While UBS execs have a challenging road ahead integrating Credit Suisse’s businesses into its own, investors seem to think it can pull it off: UBS shares jumped to their highest level since the 2008 financial crisis, making it the second-largest bank in Europe behind HSBC.

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Here is where the major benchmarks ended:

The S&P 500^® Index (SPX) was down 7.21 points (0.2%) at 4,507.66, down 1.8% for the month; the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was down 168.33 points (0.5%) at 34,721.91, down 2.4% for the month; the NASDAQ Composite was up 15.66 points (0.1%) at 14,034.97, down 2.2% for the month.
The 10-year Treasury note yield (TNX) was down about 2 basis points at 4.098%.
CBOE’s Volatility Index (VIX) was down 0.31 at 13.57.

As was the case for much of the late-August rally, technology shares helped lead gains, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) up nearly 1% and ending at a four-week high. Retail and consumer discretionary were also among the strongest-performing sectors.

Transportation and utilities lagged. In other markets, WTI crude oil futures extended a week-long rally and ended at a three-week high above $83 a barrel.

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CAREER: Physician Coaching and Development

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

MARCINKO ASSOCIATES, Inc.

SPONSOR: http://www.MarcinkoAssociates.com

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Did you Know?

Experts estimate that it can cost more than $1 million to recruit and train a replacement for a doctor who leaves the profession because of burnout. But, as no broad calculation of burnout costs exists, Dr. Tait Shanafelt [Mayo Clinic researcher and Stanford Medicine’s first Chief Physician Wellness Officer] said Stanford, Harvard Business School, Mayo Clinic and the American Medical Association (AMA) are further cost estimating the issue. Nevertheless, Shanafelt and other researchers have shown that burnout erodes job performance, increases medical errors, and leads doctors to leave a profession they once loved.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

Fortunately, we can help. From formal coaching to second career opinions, mentoring and advising, we can help with our remediation executive career programs. Regardless of what is happening in your life, it is wonderful to have a non-partial, confidential and informed career coach and sounding board on your side.

CITE: JAMA Internal Medicine [Effect of a Professional Coaching Intervention on the Well-Being and Distress of Physicians].

NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686971/

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MARCINKO & Associates, Inc.

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

WHAT WE DO AND HOW WE ASSIST MEDICAL COLLEAGUES

Hard Business Advice AND Personal Lifestyle Coaching

http://www.MARCINKOASSOCIATES.com

By Ann Miller RN MHA CMP™

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Norcross, Georgia USA 30092-1141

email: MarcinkoAdvisors@msn.com

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DAILY UPDATE: Venture Capital Backed Start-Ups

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Staff Reporters

http://www.MARCINKOAssociates.com

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There are more than 50,000 US VC-backed startups, and many will be looking for capital soon.

FMV: Funding

Many startups raised money in early 2022, and the average time between fundraising is 1.5 years.

Some startups will be looking for funding in Q4 or be forced to look for a sale or shut down.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

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SPONSOR: iMBA Inc.

Posted on August 26, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

INSTItute of Medical Business Advisors, Inc.

About the Institute of Medical Business Advisors, Inc

The Institute of Medical Business Advisors, Inc provides a team of experienced, senior level consultants led by iMBA Chief Executive Officer Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP™ MBBS [Hon] and President Hope Rachel Hetico RN MHA CMP™ to provide going contact with our clients throughout all phases of each project, with most of the communications between iMBA and the key client participants flowing through this Senior Team. iMBA Inc., and its skilled staff of certified professionals have many years of significant experience, enjoy a national reputation in the healthcare consulting field, and are supported by an unsurpassed research and support staff of CPAs, MBAs, MPHs, PhDs, CMPs™, CFPs® and JDs to maintain a thorough and extensive knowledge of the healthcare environment. The iMBA team approach emphasizes providing superior service in a timely, cost-effective manner to our clients by working together to focus on identifying and presenting solutions for our clients’ unique, individual needs.

The iMBA Inc project team’s exclusive focus on the healthcare industry provides a unique advantage for our clients. Over the years, our industry specialization has allowed iMBA to maintain instantaneous access to a comprehensive collection of healthcare industry-focused data comprised of both historically-significant resources as well as the most recent information available. iMBA Inc’s specific, in-depth knowledge and understanding of the “value drivers” in various healthcare markets, in addition to the transaction marketplace for healthcare entities, will provide you with a level of confidence unsurpassed in the public health, health economics, management, administration, and financial planning and consulting fields. iMBA Inc’s information resources and network of healthcare industry textbook resources enhanced by our professional consultants and research staff, ensure that the iMBA project team will maintain the highest level of knowledge regarding the current and future trends of the specific specialty market related to the project, as well as the healthcare industry overall, which serves as the “foundation” for each of our client engagements.

SPONSOR

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Health Care Entity: Venture Capital Funding

Posted on August 26, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Venture capital funding in the digital health space cooled a bit in 2022 following a red-hot 2021. Overall, digital health companies raised $15.3 billion last year, down from the $29.1 billion raised in 2021—but still above the $14.1 billion raised in 2020, according to Rock Health a seed fund that supports digital health startups.

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Nevertheless, analysts predict VC investors and bankers will still put a good amount of money into digital health in 2024 and 2025, especially in alternative care, drug development, health information technology technology, EMRs and software that reduces physician workload.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

Of course. an essential first part of attracting VC interest and money is the crafting and presentation of your formal business plan [“elevator pitch”]; as well as the needed technical and managerial experience. This is crucial for success and exactly where we can assist.

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NAHUC: Happy “Health Unit Coordinators” Day

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA

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Today is Health Unit Coordinators Day, It is a day to celebrate the vital behind-the-scenes work these healthcare professionals do. Health unit coordinators act as a liaison between all the departments in a healthcare facility, helping to check in patients, maintain patient records, order supplies, and more.

Myrna LaFleur, who became the NAHUC founding president, invited several interested persons to meet with her in Phoenix, Arizona, on August 23, 1980, to discuss the formation of an association for health unit coordinators. This was the first meeting and resulted in selecting the name of the association. Each year thereafter, August 23 has been declared Health Unit Coordinator Day by many mayors and governors nationwide, who issue proclamations declaring August 23rd “Health Unit Coordinator Day”. Beginning in 2017, NAHUC expanded the recognition period to a full week: August 23-29th.

MORE: https://nahuc.org/

And so, to all you coordinators who keep our healthcare facilities afloat, we salute you.

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PODCASTS: Intentional Medical Practice Marketing

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

By Entrepreneurial MD

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PODCAST: https://www.theentrepreneurmd.com/11

MORE: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/07/06/the-emerging-role-of-university-chief-strategy-officer/

ADVERTISING: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/08/05/on-marketing-adverting-and-sales/

VIDEO: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/09/29/podcast-investing-in-digital-health-sales-and-marketing/

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National Report Up-Coding Fraud Day

Posted on August 21, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

AUGUST 21st

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP

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It’s National Report Upcoding Fraud Day, an initiative started in 2017 to support whistleblowers of Medicare fraud, which costs the US billions of dollars each year. If you need any encouragement to report suspected healthcare fraud (like upcoding or inflated Medicare reimbursement claims), here’s your chance.

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

What Is Upcoding?

Upcoding is defined as having a doctor or billing person assign an inaccurate billing code to a medical procedure or treatment. It’s done to increase the reimbursement to that physician.

Beyond that, CPT codes are 5-digit codes that tell billing and insurance companies what was done to you while in that physician’s care. It may sound straightforward, but with around 7,800 codes in use, it isn’t hard to get things mixed up or to miss the fact that they overcharged you for a service.

Sometimes the mistake is made in error. In other situations, the office or hospital may mix it up intentionally. Most often, intentional miscoding happens when the facility is billing Medicaid or Medicare. Again, this may not seem like a big deal for you since the government covers it, but it may still affect your ability to get the healthcare that you need.

MORE: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/11/05/medical-billing-down-and-up-coding/

And so, National Report Upcoding Fraud Day is on August 21st. An initiative by Joel Hesch, a former attorney with the Department of Justice. Hesch and a passionate advocate for whistleblowers, created the day for anyone looking to report healthcare fraud. He wanted to make it easier, so everyone could get the process right. The day generates awareness and detailed steps on how the general public can report unethical healthcare providers. Fraudsters siphon off $65 billion each year in Medicare fraud through inflated reimbursement claims. Upcoding is one of the most rampant types of healthcare fraud that must end.Hesch draws on his 15 years as an attorney in the D.O.J. to support and encourage whistleblowers to come forward. The most successful claims have two things in common – facts and the use of proper reporting channels. National Report Upcoding Fraud Day aims to empower anyone with a legitimate case for claims.

MORE: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2023/06/29/daily-update-healthcare-fraud-schemes-up-as-the-dow-dips-down/

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The Next-Generation of “Anti-Millionaire” Doctors

Posted on August 21, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

“$1 Million Mistake: Becoming a Doctor”

BY DR. DAVID E. MARCINKO MBA CMP®

SPONSOR: http://www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org

CBS Moneywatch published an article entitled “$1 Million Mistake: Becoming a Doctor” Aside from the possibility that devoting one’s life to helping others might be considered a mistake, medical student Dan Coleman was struck by the “$1 million” figure.

Before medical school, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry and even turned down a hefty promotion to his education as soon as possible, rather than defer for a year or two. But, his financial calculations made it fairly obvious that, including benefits, bonuses, and potential promotions, his medical decision was not a $1 million mistake, but was more like a $1.3 million dollar disaster. Still; he opined:

Yet, even today, as we stare down the barrel of the Affordable Care Act, being a doctor is a very desirable job. We may not be famous, but we will be well-respected. We may not be rich, but we will certainly live comfortably. We may work a lot, but we will never be out of work. To future doctors, the young and impecunious, the anti-millionaires, tuition is a mere afterthought. All that matters is the MD.

Source: http://in-training.org/medical-students-the-anti-millionaires-4361

OVER HEARD IN THE MEDICAL STUDENT’S LOUNGE

“We are medical students.
We are young, proud, and righteous.
We have made the hard choice (medicine), but we have cleared the high hurdle (getting into school).

We know healthcare is a difficult, imperfect art, but we are devoted.
We arm ourselves with the weapons of knowledge and compassion, prepared to defend against the onslaught of trauma, disease, and time.
We are here to the bitter end, for our patients and ourselves.
And above all, we know the cost of our choice.

And if we’re lucky, it will stay under 6% interest through graduation”.

Daniel Coleman

[Georgetown University School of Medicine]

First-year Student

Your thoughts are appreciated,

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HEALTH CARE ENTITY: Venture Capital Funding

Posted on August 20, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

FMV: Funding

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Invite Dr. Marcinko to Speak at your Next Seminar, Webcast or Event in Late 2023?

Posted on August 17, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The Choice is Up to You

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Colleagues know that I enjoy personal coaching and public speaking and give as many talks each year as possible, at a variety of medical society and financial services conferences around the country and world.

These include lectures and visiting professorships at major academic centers, keynote lectures for hospitals, economic seminars and health systems, keynote lectures at city and statewide financial coalitions, and annual keynote lectures for a variety of internal yearly meetings.

Topics Link: imba-inc-firm-services

My Fond Farewell to Tuskegee University

And so, we appreciate your consideration.

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MICRO: Credentials and Certifications

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH

MARCINKO ASSOCIATES, Inc.

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DEFINITION: One way to accelerate and support learning is with continuous up-skilling. A key component is micro-certification and credentialing, which is best thought of as learning that happens in smaller “chunks” — such as boot-camp training, an online course from a university or other provider, or even an apprenticeship.

When competency in a specific knowledge area or skill is demonstrated, a micro-certification is issued, which can be listed on a resume or displayed as a “badge” or a mastery credit on an online profile.

Over time, individuals can amass portfolios of competencies that characterize their capabilities in a way that is much more relevant to their professional lives than relying solely on academic credentials.

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So – Do you ever wish you could acquire specific information or subject matter expertise for your career activities without having to complete a college or university Master’s Degree in Business or finish our entire online Certified Medical Planner™ professional certification and designation program?

CMP: http://www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org

Topics include: economics, finance, investing, marketing, advertising, sales, start-ups, business plan creation, financial planning and entrepreneurship, etc.

Well, Micro-Certifications and Credentials from the Institute of Medical Business Advisors, Inc., might be an alternative knowledge pursuit.

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CAREER: Physician Coaching and Development

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

MARCINKO ASSOCIATES, Inc.

SPONSOR: http://www.MarcinkoAssociates.com

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Did you Know?

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

CITE: JAMA Internal Medicine [Effect of a Professional Coaching Intervention on the Well-Being and Distress of Physicians].

NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686971/

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SEC: Money Market Fund Reforms

Posted on August 9, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

RICHARD CAYNE

By Staff Reporters

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SEC money market fund reforms: On July 12, 2023 the SEC released new rules intended to decrease the risk of runs on money market funds (MMFs). MMFs must charge liquidity fees if their daily net redemptions exceed 5% of their net assets, or if their boards deem it necessary, and must maintain a liquidity buffer of at least 25% of their total daily assets and at least 50% of their weekly assets. MMFs are also no longer allowed to use “gates” to temporarily suspend redemption!
CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

Goes into effect: 60 days after the rule is published in the Federal Register.

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BEHAVIORAL FINANCE: Cash is Still “King”

Posted on August 8, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

TREATING YOURSELF WITH CASH

By Staff Reporters

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Folks are more likely to reach for dollar bills than credit cards when making a guilty pleasure purchase, according to new Stanford research.

MORE: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2022/06/22/behavioral-finance-for-doctors/

In more than 118,000 real transactions at the university bookstore, buyers tended to slap their plastic on the counter for school supplies but pay with cash for “harder-to-justify” items like a stuffed plush mascot. And when asked how they’d pay for a hypothetical Reiki session, participants leaned toward credit card when the treatment was described as doctor-recommended but toward cash when they were told it was just an impulse purchase.

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CAREER: Physician Coaching and Development

Posted on August 8, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

MARCINKO ASSOCIATES, Inc.

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Did you Know?

CITE: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

CITE: JAMA Internal Medicine [Effect of a Professional Coaching Intervention on the Well-Being and Distress of Physicians].

NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6686971/

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Seeking University Faculty Appointment in 2024

Posted on August 3, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Endowed Scholar-on-Sabbatical

By David Edward Marcinko MBBS DPM MBA MEd CMP™

Any New Year typically brings to mind the passage of Father Time. And, it’s hard to believe I will be finishing up my current endowed R&D sabbatical after the Summer semester.

It means searching for a new faculty appointment to continue my passion for: [1] classroom teaching and junior faculty mentorship [2], university PR, outreach, promotion and grant-funding; and of course [3] more research, development, books and publications.

This competitive scholarship ethos is AKA the triad of success: “being a guide on the side – not a sage on the stage” AND “no margin – no mission” AND “publish or perish.”

Employment and Subject Matter Expertise

Now, as a consummate team player, I’ve served as adjunct, to visiting, to full distinguished professor – and as department chair, to endowed chairman, online MOOC Dean and professor-of-the-practice. Areas of specialization include: public and population health policy, management and administration; health economics, finance and insurance; and medical capitalism, innovation and free-enterprise at the graduate or doctoral levels.

And, as a former surgeon and clinician who also trained in Europe, and devotee of Nobel Laureate Ken Arrow PhD, I’m a global inter-disciplinarian within the health care industrial complex that may soon comprise 20% of domestic GDP.

Location – Location – Location

I’m pretty much private or public [mid-size] school agnostic, but prefer the Southeast, Northeast and Midwest in a livable city; with a 9-10 month faculty appointment.

But, I wouldn’t rule out a 12-month business school, or public health sciences type Dean position, as long as it is not totally administrative. A founding department chair, or inaugural deanship, would be near perfect; 24/7/365.

Crowd-Sourcing a Job?

So, I am crowd-sourcing this new job search as an emerging trend. Moreover, crowd-funding health insurance, and crowd-sourcing medical and diagnostic care is an emerging HIT trend. In fact, it’s the R&D equivalent of my current Health Dictionary Series™ WIKI project. It’s an experiment!

Regardless of the job search, check it out and tell me what you think!

Assessment

Finally, please know that I am not looking for a mere job or to climb the ladder of academia. Rather, I am seeking a university home to continue my passionate career by paying it forward as servant-leader for the next generation of business and/or public health care executives.

More Info:

If you think I might be a good fit for your university, or would just like to brainstorm ideas; give me a holler: email: MarcinkoAdvisors@msn.com; or arrange a virtual Skype interview to “chat”. Grab yourself a cup of coffee, because I am verbose.

Serious inquirers might also want to check me out, in far-too-much-detail, here!

http://www.DavidEdwardMarcinko.com

Thank you for the opportunity

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What is the Free Market Medical Association?

Posted on August 2, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

[By Staff Reporters]

The Free Market Medical Association Promotes Transparency in Healthcare

The free market movement in healthcare is gaining steam. This is because of providers, patients, and self-funded employers, who believe that changing the way we purchase healthcare services is necessary, and seeking out value driven healthcare providers is important.

Matching a willing buyer with a willing seller of valuable healthcare services is the goal of everyone involved in this movement. We help identify patients willing to pay cash, doctors willing to list their prices, businesses attempting to provide affordable quality insurance, and providers/services/and patient advocates that are helping make everything work.

LINK: https://fmma.org/contact/

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Assessment

To further promote this movement, the FMMA is dedicated to bringing together BUYERS and SELLERS.

And, our Publisher-in-Chief, Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA will be joining FMMA soon. Will you join, too?

Conclusion

OUR OTHER PRINT BOOKS AND RELATED INFORMATION SOURCES:

PRACTICES: www.BusinessofMedicalPractice.com
HOSPITALS: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466558731
CLINICS: http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439879900
ADVISORS: www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.org
FINANCE: Financial Planning for Physicians and Advisors
INSURANCE: Risk Management and Insurance Strategies for Physicians and Advisors
Dictionary of Health Economics and Finance
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CIGNA: Busted PxDx [Procedure-to-Diagnose]

Posted on July 26, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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(AP) — A federal lawsuit alleges that health insurance giant CIGNA used a computer algorithm to automatically reject hundreds of thousands of patient claims without examining them individually as required by California law.

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The class-action lawsuit, just filed in federal court in Sacramento, says CIGNA Corp. and CIGNA Health and Life Insurance Co. rejected more than 300,000 payment claims in just two months last year.

The company used an algorithm called PXDX, shorthand for ”procedure-to-diagnosis,” to identify whether claims met certain requirements, spending an average of just 1.2 seconds on each review, according to the lawsuit.

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Understanding Chebyshev’s Theorem?

Posted on July 13, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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The rule is often called Chebyshev’s theorem, about the range of standard deviations around the mean, in statistics www.HealthDictionarySeries.org

The inequality has great utility because it can be applied to any probability distribution in which the mean and variance are defined. But first, let us review the Empirical Rule.

Empirical Rule

In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states that, given certain conditions, the arithmetic mean of a sufficiently large number of iterates of independent random variables, each with a well-defined expected value and well-defined variance, will be approximately normally distributed, regardless of the underlying

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Central Limit Theorem

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Chebyshev’s Theorem

The Russian mathematician P.L. Chebyshev (1821-1894) proved a theorem which is valid for any distribution of data:

For any number k greater than 1, at least 1-1/k² of the data will fall within k standard deviations of the mean. This theorem produces a few useful rules:

no information can be obtained on the fraction of values falling within 1 standard deviation of the mean
at least 75% will fall within 2 standard deviations
at least 88.8 % will fall within 3 standard deviations

The following figure is a graphical presentation of these rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%27s_inequality

Chebyshev’s Theorem: The proportion of any distribution that lies within k standard deviations of the mean is at least 1 – (1/k2), where k is any positive number larger than 1. This theorem applies to all distributions of data.

Assessment

OK; so basically Chebyshev’s theorem states that 75% of your data will lie within 2 standard deviations of the mean and that 89% of your data will lie within 3 standard deviations of the mean.

And, I believe that this theorem is much more precise than the Empirical Rule, which assumes normality and can be off.

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THANK YOU: Emergency Room and Department Medical Professionals

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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We hope you’ve recovered from overindulging in hot dogs, beer and parade candy; yesterday. The hospital employees out there are probably even busier than usual today, as more than 45,000 people on average visited emergency rooms on both July 4th and 5th due to holiday-related injuries.

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The MD versus DO Degree

Posted on June 17, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Battle of the Allopathic Vs. Osteopathic Physicians

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What’s the difference between an MD and a DO?

An MD is a Doctor of Medicine, while a DO is a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. The bottom line? They do the same job, have similar schooling, can prescribe medication and can practice all over the U.S.

“In general, DOs practice a more holistic, whole-person type of care,” explains Dr. Vyas. “MDs take a more allopathic, or illness-based, approach.”

Allopathic and osteopathic medicine differ in several ways:

Allopathic medicine uses medication, surgery and other interventions to treat illnesses.
Osteopathic medicine emphasizes the relationship between the mind, body and spirit. It focuses on treating the person as a whole and improving wellness through education and prevention. DOs also receive extra training in osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM), a hands-on method for diagnosing and treating patients.

But these philosophical differences don’t necessarily define the way DOs and MDs practice medicine. For example, DOs use all types of modern medical treatments, and MDs provide whole-person and preventive care.

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What’s in a Medical Degree?

Allopathic and Osteopathic medical schools have similar curriculum structures. Students spend 12–24 months of their program in the classroom and then continue training in clinical settings, according to the American Medical Association (AMA).

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MORE Personal BUDGET Rules for Doctors

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Personal Physician Budgeting Rules

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NOTE: The US debt-ceiling bill just passed, June 1, 2023. So, here are some budgeting rules for doctors and medical professionals.

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Budgeting is probably one of the greatest tools in building wealth. However, it is also one of the greatest weaknesses among physicians who tend to live a certain lifestyle. This includes living in an exclusive neighborhood, driving an expensive car, wearing imported suits and a fine watch, all of which do not lend themselves to expense budgeting. Only one in ten medical professionals has a personal budget. Fear, or a lack of knowledge, is a major cause of procrastination.

The following guidelines will assist in this microeconomic endeavor:

Set reasonable goals and estimate annual income. Do not keep large amounts of cash at home, or in the office. Deposit it in a money market account for safety and interest.

Do not pay bills early, do not have more taxes withheld from your salary than you owe, and develop spending estimates and budget fixed expenses first. Fixed expenses are usually contractual, and may include housing, utilities, food, telephone, social security, medical, debt repayment, homeowner’ or renter’s insurance, auto, life and disability insurance, and maintenance, etc.

Make variable expenses a priority. Variable expenses are not usually contractual, and may include clothing, education, recreational, travel, vacation, gas, entertainment, gifts, furnishings, savings, investments, etc.

Trim variable expenses by 10-15 percent, and fixed expenses, when possible. Ultimately, all fixed expenses get paid and become variable in the long run.

Use carve-out or set-asides for big ticket items and differentiate “wants from needs.”

Know the difference between saving and investing. Savers tend to be risk adverse and investors understand risk and takes steps to mitigate it.

Determine shortfalls or excesses with the budget period.

Track actual expenses.

Calculate both income and expenses as a percentage of the total, and determine if there is a better way to allocate resources. Then, review the budget on a monthly basis to determine if there is a variance. Determine if the variance was avoidable, unavoidable, or a result of inaccurate assumptions, and take needed corrective action.

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Verify Your Budget and Follow a Financial Plan

The process of establishing a budget relies heavily on guesswork, and the use of software or “apps”, that seamlessly track expenditures and help your budget and your financial plan become more of reality. Most doctors underestimate their true expenses, so lumping and best guesses on expense usually prove very inaccurate. Personal financial software and mobile phone applications make the verification of budgets easier. Once your personal accounts are setup, free apps like MINT.com will let give you a detailed report on where your money is going and the adjustments you must make. Few professions make larger contributions to the Internal Revenue Service than physicians and the medical profession. It is very important to categorize different budget categories not only to be proactive about your expenses, but also to accurately reflect the effect your different expenditures have on your real savings capability. All expense dollars are not equal.

For example, a mortgage payment, which is mostly interest expense in the early years, is likewise mostly tax deductible. Spending money on your family vacation is typically not tax deductible. Itemized deductions, which are deductions that a US taxpayer can claim on their tax return in order to reduce their Adjustable Gross Income (AGI), may include such costs as property taxes, vehicle registration fees, income taxes, mortgage expense, investment interest, charitable contributions, medical expenses (to the extent the expenses exceed 10% of the taxpayers AGI) and more.

Employing a qualified certified medical planneR® that utilizes a cash-flow based financial planning software program may help the physician identify their actual after-tax projected cash flow and more accurately plan their future.

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Posted on May 29, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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Memorial Day 2023: U.S. exchanges are closed today, May 29th, for Memorial Day

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What is a Social Impact Bond?

Posted on May 25, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

New Financial Product – or Societal Economic Hammer

By Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA CMP™

At a time when government finances are stretched there is growing interest in finding new ways to fund public services [healthcare, for example] which improve social outcomes [public health]. And, one new funding model currently being tested, for the past decade in the United Kingdom, is Social Impact Bonds (SIBs).

Definition

A SIB is a form of payment by results (PBR) in which funding is obtained from private investors to pay for interventions to improve social outcomes. If these interventions succeed in improving outcomes, they should result in savings to the Government and provide wider benefits to society. Of course, as part of a SIB, the Government agrees to pay a proportion of these savings back to the investors. If outcomes do not improve, investors do not receive a return on their investment.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_impact_bond

Wall Street’s Securitization

Wall Street can securitize almost any asset for a commission, or to hold it for profit or loss. Remember David Bowie bonds?

“Securitization” is the process through which an issuer creates a financial instrument by combining other financial assets and then marketing different tiers of the repackaged instruments to investors. The process can encompass any type of financial asset and promotes liquidity in the marketplace.

Link: http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/03/05/could-social-impact-bonds-help-restore-public-budgets/

SIBs

SIBs may be an example of securitization. By combining small debt into one large pool, the issuer can divide the large pool into smaller pieces based on each individual bond’s inherent risk of default, and then sell those smaller pieces to investors. The process creates liquidity by enabling smaller investors to purchase shares in a larger asset pool. Individual retail buyers, like physician-investors and others, are able to purchase portions the bond. Without the securitization, retail investors might not be able to afford to buy into a large pool of bonds.

Assessment

This is the first time we’ve discussed SIBs on this ME-P. But, they should get much more attention from our CPA, investment advisor [IA] and financial advisory [FA] readers now that President Obama has announced his support for this British idea like getting private investors to pay for public services such as housing for the homeless, health care for vulnerable populations; or even education. It could work for anything that can save the Government money in the long run, but costs money up front, as long as we can measure it.

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Modern Portfolio Theory and Asset Allocation [Not Correlation]

Posted on May 21, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

THE CORRELATION HOT TOPIC

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Modern Portfolio Theory approaches investing by examining the complete market and the full economy. MPT places a great emphasis on the correlation between investments.

DEFINITION:

Correlation is a measure of how frequently one event tends to happen when another event happens. High positive correlation means two events usually happen together – high SAT scores and getting through college for instance. High negative correlation means two events tend not to happen together – high SATs and a poor grade record.

No correlation means the two events are independent of one another. In statistical terms two events that are perfectly correlated have a “correlation coefficient” of 1; two events that are perfectly negatively correlated have a correlation coefficient of -1; and two events that have zero correlation have a coefficient of 0.

Correlation has been used over the past twenty years by institutions and financial advisors to assemble portfolios of moderate risk. In calculating correlation, a statistician would examine the possibility of two events happening together, namely:

If the probability of A happening is 1/X;
And the probability of B happening is 1/Y; then
The probability of A and B happening together is (1/X) times (1/Y), or 1/(X times Y).

There are several laws of correlation including;

Combining assets with a perfect positive correlation offers no reduction in portfolio risk. These two assets will simply move in tandem with each other.
Combining assets with zero correlation (statistically independent) reduces the risk of the portfolio. If more assets with uncorrelated returns are added to the portfolio, significant risk reduction can be achieved.
Combing assets with a perfect negative correlation could eliminate risk entirely. This is the principle with “hedging strategies”. These strategies are discussed later in the book.

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BUT – CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION

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In the real world, negative correlations are very rare

Most assets maintain a positive correlation with each other. The goal of a prudent investor is to assemble a portfolio that contains uncorrelated assets. When a portfolio contains assets that possess low correlations, the upward movement of one asset class will help offset the downward movement of another. This is especially important when economic and market conditions change.

As a result, including assets in your portfolio that are not highly correlated will reduce the overall volatility (as measured by standard deviation) and may also increase long-term investment returns. This is the primary argument for including dissimilar asset classes in your portfolio. Keep in mind that this type of diversification does not guarantee you will avoid a loss. It simply minimizes the chance of loss.

In the table provided by Ibbotson, the average correlation between the five major asset classes is displayed. The lowest correlation is between the U.S. Treasury Bonds and the EAFE (international stocks). The highest correlation is between the S&P 500 and the EAFE; 0.77 or 77 percent. This signifies a prominent level of correlation that has grown even larger during this decade. Low correlations within the table appear most with U.S. Treasury Bills.

Historical Correlation of Asset Classes

Benchmark 1 2 3 4 5 6

1 U.S. Treasury Bill 1.00

2 U.S. Bonds 0.73 1.00

3 S&P 500 0.03 0.34 1.00

4 Commodities 0.15 0.04 0.08 1.00

5 International Stocks -0.13 -0.31 0.77 0.14 1.00

6 Real Estate 0.11 0.43 0.81 -0.02 0.66 1.00

Table Source: Ibbotson 1980-2012

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What is a Financial CDO and CMO?

Posted on May 18, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

Collateralized Debt Obligations

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COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS

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A collateralized debt obligation (CDO) is a type of structured asset-backed security (ABS). Originally developed as instruments for the corporate debt markets, after 2002 CDOs became vehicles for refinancing mortgage-backed securities (MBS).

Like other private label securities backed by assets, a CDO can be thought of as a promise to pay investors in a prescribed sequence, based on the cash flow the CDO collects from the pool of bonds or other assets it owns. Distinctively, CDO credit risk is typically assessed based on a probability of default (PD) derived from ratings on those bonds or assets.

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Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) - Assignment Point

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Collateralized Mortgage Obligation

A CMO is a debt security backed by mortgages. These mortgage pools are usually separated into different maturity classes called tranches (from the French word for “slice”). The securities were issued by private issuers, as well as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). As the mortgages were usually government-guaranteed, CMOs usually carried AAA ratings until their current financial meltdown. The early versions of CMOs were known as “plain vanilla,” but recent developments gave us PACs (planned amortization certificates) and TACs (targeted amortization certificates); among too many others. They were all variations on how principal repayments in advance of maturity date were treated.

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Posted on May 14, 2023 by Dr. David Edward Marcinko MBA MEd CMP™

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