by Abraham Whaley | Feb 10, 2013 | Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
If you read my alert from August or the followup article on Audit Red Flags to Avoid, you are aware that CMS hired an accounting firm, Figliozzi & Company, to audit the compliance of eligible providers and eligible hospitals that had already received payment under...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 23, 2013 | Headlines, Innovation, Medicare & Reimbursement, Memes
In our consulting practice we are seeing physicians fleeing hospital employment just when many people are predicting the death of the private medical practice. We affectionately call these physicians our “Single Shingles” and they are approaching private...
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 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...
by Abraham Whaley | Dec 19, 2012 | Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
In late November, the Department of Health and Human Services published its proposed rules that outline how the insurance market will operate starting in 2014. The rules mean consumers will have access to the information they need to make informed decisions about...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 18, 2012 | Headlines
My new sister-in-law grew up in Siberia and moved to Ukraine when she was 16. She became a nurse, married, had children, divorced, had grandchildren, met my brother, fell in love with him and his mission and they married last year. On her first trip to the United...
