by Mary Pat Whaley | Dec 4, 2011 | Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
I haven’t written much about the impending 29% Medicare physician payment cut. This threatened cut has happened every year for the past 10 years. Every year at the last second, Washington is convinced that if cuts take place, physicians really will stop seeing...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jun 7, 2011 | Finance, Physician Relations
Based on a great conversation I had on LinkedIn recently, I decided to write about physician productivity models and the hybrid model (encounters and work RVUs) I developed for a hospital-sponsored family practice program. This bonus model rewards providers seeing...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 2, 2011 | A Career in Practice Management
In addition to onsite and online undergraduate and graduate programs in healthcare administration and management, there are a number of programs that offer certification and registration (both terms meaning the same thing) for career healthcare managers. When...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 7, 2010 | Innovation, Memes, Social Media
I could write thousands of words about Adrian Segar and “Conferences That Work” because my conversation with him went that far and that long and he was that interesting to speak with. Adrian told me “I am on my fifth career” and that “the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Feb 9, 2010 | A Career in Practice Management
Read the 2011 update to this article here. You’ve heard that healthcare is one of the few job markets that is still growing in a down economy and you think you might like to be a medical office manager. The question is: how much do medical practice managers...
