by Abraham Whaley | Jan 20, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
What is Hospice? Hospice care focuses on improving the quality of life for persons and their families faced with a life-limiting illness. The primary goals of hospice care are to provide comfort, relieve physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering, and promote the...
by Abraham Whaley | Jan 15, 2013 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Headlines, Leadership, Medicare & Reimbursement
Oh, hello #Flu, you’re a little early this year: sick.io/ksxfm — Sickweather (@sickweather) October 19, 2012 The tweet above was sent out by a very interesting start up named Sickweather on October 19th of last year. Sickweather analyzes data from Twitter...
by Abraham Whaley | Jan 14, 2013 | A Career in Practice Management, Day-to-Day Operations, Leadership
I have a saying about management that I try and keep front and center in my mind whenever I interact with employees. “There are two things you should never mess with: a person’s paycheck, and a person’s time off.” If you heard a lot of noise...
by Abraham Whaley | Jan 9, 2013 | Day-to-Day Operations, Learn This: Technology Answers
I had a very illuminating conversation with my son Abraham the other day. It happens a lot. It’s one of the reasons we went into business together – we illuminate each other! Abe said “Googling is such an underrated skill.” I thought about how...
by Abraham Whaley | Jan 8, 2013 | Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Headlines
Too often in the rush to upgrade to the newest technology, one basic question that goes unanswered is: “Why are we doing this?” Because of the ARRA (or “stimulus”) money available to eligible providers, a lot of offices have started or...
