Friends On-line
As I fall further behind with my blog postings, I must point to two recent additions to the on-line world (well, OK, three):
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Cyber SLAPPed!
These things always happen when I can least afford to spend time working on them. When I leave town, for example, and can't get my mail...PedTalk usually explodes. This time, it's school break and we received the following at PCC:
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'Comparision of House-passed Senate-amended, and final Stimulus Conference Report'
My thanks to Dr. Gewanter who shared this 5 page PDF excerpt from a larger report developed by Patton Boggs LLP that, as the title implies, provides a ''Comparison of House-passed, Senate-amended, and final Stimulus Conference Report."
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Recession and Pediatrics, Detail I
Pardon my brief absence. I start a piece every day and then get distracted by some shiny object and don't return. OK, maybe I'm being distracted by some really fun sites.
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Verden Group, Telephone Codes, Harvard Pilgrim
I was paging through my daily Verden Alerts and I noticed that Harvard Pilgrim had released a new set of payment policies regarding E&M codes. In fact, you can read it here on their WWW site, Verden just makes this a lot easier. I suspect that mo...
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The Recession and Pediatrics, Part II
Igor and I have continued to follow up on the recession and its impact on our pediatric clients and have discovered some interesting results. We published a formal interview with the two of us here, the teaser follows:
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Imms Purchasing, Chapter 2: Physicians' Alliance
A few weeks ago, I did my first piece on the different group purchasing organizations focused on immunizations whom I know, Main Street Vaccines. My goal is to provide an introduction to each of the GPOs and assemble the results in a single place so ...
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Pediatric A/R Data
n a day or so, I'm going to do an interesting followup on our examination of the impact of the economy on pediatric practices, so something related to tide you over
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Podcasts/Chip Hart
I had a great time speaking to Drs. Bravo and Rogu on their growing podcast, The Pediatric Lounge, to discuss the state of independent pediatricians and the use of data in a pediatric practice. They are cranking out episodes (which is a good thing) and anyone who supports independent pediatricians should tune in to their effort. What they are doing takes a tremendous amount of work and their guest list is amazing (well, besides me). They turned our conversation into back-to-back episodes (32 and 33), "Independent Pediatric Practice 2022" and "Data Data Data and Managing a Pediatric Office." If you prefer video, you catch up on their YouTube channel.
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