I haven’t written about Obamacare (PPACA, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is its more formal appelation) in a while. And, several of my clients have asked questions based upon spurious statements (yes, this opinion will be substantiated) by several insurance companies about the ability of Obamacare to work and provide profitable engagements for the insurance companies.
Continue reading Obamacare Choice
Continue reading Medical Practice…
I’ve written that it is critical to examine one’s business environment often. To insure that what we are doing will make sense- and money- inf the future. Most of us lack lobbyists at our beck and call to insure our business is not overcome by those changes.
Continue reading First, do no harm?
There’s an old joke about which professions make the worst business managers and leaders. I won’t bother to say which one it is, though… But, if you are a professional (lawyer, doctor, accountant), then you know that joke (fact). And, you know you need to make your business stronger and more profitable.
Continue reading Yes, you are a professional- but are you MY professional?
The Federal program we know as Medicare, became a reality on 30 July 1965, when it was signed into law. But, the first patients could not sign up for benefits until 1 July 1966. And, by 1979, the American Medical Association managed to get a ruling that the moneys paid to doctors under the program could not be revealed to the public. The reasoning (sic) was that this was an invasion of the physician’s privacy.
Continue reading FOIA now works for Medicare, too!
Have you ever considered how your client views your law firm (or your tax preparation or medical specialty or engineering- even order fulfillment) firm? They come, they ask questions, they give you money, and then they wait…and sometimes wait and wait. That whole process is something you can change to demonstrate your ‘value added’ components to your clients/customers.
Continue reading What’s going on? Please tell me!
Just so you know this is important, I am breaking into my queue to alert you- and everyone you know- about this breaking news. It is yet another means that our society gets corrupted. We- you and me- have to stop this- to protect our youth- and our adults.
Continue reading Stop- in the name of love!
When I got married in 1989, the last time I had visited a physician’s office was more than a quarter century earlier. Oh, I’d been to hospitals (broken arms, shattered glass, shattered vertebrae, horrendous wrecks), but to a physician per se- nope.
Continue reading Doctor, Doctor, Mr. MD, Can You Tell Me What’s Ailing Me?
Regardless of where you fall on the ObamaCare spectrum, you know healthcare must be reformed in America. We pay too much and get too little in return. The real fact is that the key to better health is not better science. We already have great science- whether we can afford it, is another question; whether it is properly employed is yet another. The problem with better health is people and information (which, in this case, is related)- in other words, implementation.
Continue reading Healthcare Improvement Can’t Happen Without Better Information Transfer
