by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 6, 2010 | Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement, The Cohen Report (NCCI & RVUs)
Report by Frank Cohen Frank Cohen, MPA, MBB The Frank Cohen Group, LLC As many of you may already know, July 1, 2010 CMS released yet another RBRVS (Resource Based Relative Value Scale) data set that will be used to pay physicians under Medicare effective June 1,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 5, 2010 | A Career in Practice Management, Leadership
Note: I am very pleased to welcome the eloquent Dr. Charles of Examining Room fame to Manage My Practice. On his website, Dr. Charles tells us ” I am a family medicine physician” and says “Home-grown tomatoes have a special place in my heart.”...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 5, 2010 | Definitions
Amara’s law ”” “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” (think EMR) Asimov’s three laws of robotics ”” Also called, more simply, the Three Laws of Robotics or just the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 5, 2010 | Definitions
William of Ockham was a 14th-century English logician, theologian and Franciscan friar and although Occam’s Razor bears his name, it is suspected that he did not originate it, only that he repeated it repeatedly! Occam’s Razor is the principle that...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 5, 2010 | Definitions
The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act (or Check 21 Act) is a United States federal law, Pub.L. 108-100, enacted into law October 28, 2003 by the 108th Congress. It took effect one year later, on October 28, 2004. The law allows the recipient of the original...
