by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 23, 2009 | Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
A typical standard operating procedure in many practices when adding a new physician is to phase in his/her schedule as s/he becomes credentialed by each payer. Traditionally, new physicians have been able to see Medicare patients immediately due to the Medicare...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 22, 2009 | Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement, Memes
The Medical Home, also called the Patient-Centered Medical Home, and the Personal Medical Home, is a movement to solve the problem of fragmented care (one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing) by having a primary care physician or practitioner act as the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 21, 2009 | Learn This: Technology Answers
What a wonderful, crazy time this is, both in healthcare and in my life. I can hardy keep up with either! First, some changes to my website/blog. I’ve added a few new pages to house special resources, but I don’t have them connected to RSS or email yet,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 14, 2009 | Innovation, Social Media
I know many people are having trouble understanding how Twitter could be relevant to a medical practice. Here’s a list that might help. 1. Tweet patients when doctor is running late. 2. Tweet doctor when patient is running late. 3. Tweet staff to remind them of...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Apr 12, 2009 | Electronic Medical Records, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
ARRA: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also called “The Stimulus Package” or “The Stimulus Bill.” Of the $850B in the bill, $51B is pegged for the health care industry and $19B of that will be used to incent medical practices...
