My New Favorite Contract Clause
I know we have all seen it - in theory, at least. Too many people sign without reading. But this snippet sums it all up. And it's not even from one of the "bad" HMOs:
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AAP Endorsed Pediatric Coding Seminar, Aug 22 2007 NYC
That's right - the AAP decided to get out of the seminar management business (at least for now) and we were asked to step in. Which we were grateful to do (thanks, Dr. Lander!).
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Trench Stories II (or, "Do The Math")
It's difficult to narrow down the math stories to just one, there are so many, but here's this week's for a start. From one of the only payors who behaves worse than United/Oxford, a letter to a client of ours in the northeast:
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Trench Stories I (or, “Harnessing Mom Power”)
Over the next few days, I'm going to post a sampling of stories of the things I've seen from our clients just this week regarding insurance negotiations. As so perfectly put by Dr. Rogu in a recent comment, awake sleeping giants! Identifying informat...
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SoundPractice.net
Just ran into this fascinating site. It's the mp3-blog from the Journal of Medical Practice Management. Some of the pieces are excellent (though I don't think that small groups are going to become a novelty...). The refers to a group of our customers...
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Immunization Registry Woes
When we first began working with various immunization registry programs over 10 years ago, we were really excited. What a great idea! All the data is there, why not use it to improve healthcare? PCC interfaces with 15? 20? different states, for free,...
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The Tide Rises . . . as does my backlog
I see a small pile of 1/2 finished entries. My travel schedule is making it difficult these days!
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Fighting the Empire
A customer called me yesterday to ask, "[Evil Empire HMO] has finally come to the table and is offering me 100% of Medicare on my E&Ms...should I take it?"
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Podcasts/Chip Hart
I'd like to introduce Charting the Future, a new pediatric podcast featuring independent pediatricians from around the country.
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