by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 17, 2010 | Day-to-Day Operations, Finance, Medicare & Reimbursement
Medicare is a federal health insurance program created in 1965 for: people age 65 or older, people under age 65 with certain disabilities, and people of all ages with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant) Medicare...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 3, 2010 | Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
I sat at the checkout desk in my practice last week for the first time and as always, it was a revelation. If you haven’t worked your check-in and check-out desks recently, I highly recommend it. An insured patient that I checked out was shocked when I said the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 21, 2009 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
My book on front-end collections has been doing really well and I’m pleased that a number of people have called me or emailed me with questions. Here’s one question that a number of people have asked – “Can you tell me more about knowing what...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 14, 2009 | Electronic Medical Records, Medicare & Reimbursement
If you don’t have the following ten items on a manual checklist or in your EMR, you might want to add them. Any time I hear someone list things that improve quality of life and downstream health, I think to myself “This is future reimbursement...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 9, 2009 | Medicare & Reimbursement
I received an email today from SubroShare® founder and CIO Stephen Ambrose, letting me know that SubroShare® has changed its marketing model from what he described in his recent interview here. He describes the new model: It was thought at one time that the health...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 1, 2009 | Day-to-Day Operations, Medicare & Reimbursement
Click here for the December 9th UPDATE I posted on SubroShare’s announcement that they will not be focusing on physicians as clients. I recently interviewed Stephen Ambrose, the Founder and CIO of SubroShare®, a database of medical record requests. Steve has a...
