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As you may have heard, we are having a great debate in this county over healthcare reform. While most Americans strongly agree that we do need to reform healthcare within the country, most Americans disapprove of the current solution that has been passed into law by Congress. There are many reasons why Americans don’t like the A
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SDRP or Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol is a component of new-age Healthcare Reform that sets limits on physician referrals within a category of services known as DHS or Designated Health Services. Use of resources that fall within this realm (lab services, therapies, medical supplies, at-home services and prescription drugs) is explicitly limited in terms of Medicare billing. Expressly stated as limitations for physicians referring business to any entity in which they hold a financial stake, these restrictions are so strict, in fact, that a non-compliance or accidental overpayment from Medicare could lead a physician’s office to accusations of fraud and top…
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What does this mean to you? Government healthcare doesn’t work! A multi – billion dollar healthcare provider has already done the research for you and the results… They lost $120 million dollars last year. How much did you lose on Medicare patients? How much will you lose in Healthcare Reform? Effective January 1st, 2010 the Glendale, AZ Mayo Clinic stopped seeing ALL Medicare patients saying the U.S. Government pays too little.
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Thursday, 28 April 2011
Written by Sherry Krueger
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The First Wave of Impressions, March 26, 2010 – How Healthcare Reform Will Affect Doctors |
Healthcare Reform has passed but it will be a long time before the experts figure out the many ways that physicians will be affected. Predictions are that taxes and premiums will increase, doctors will be forced to consolidate and the health care system will become two tiered. Here is our summary of the “first wave” of opinions that are coming fro
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Fraud and staff theft are on the rise. Why is this happening? One reason is a spiraling economy. Another is lack of physician oversight. As the operation of medical practices gets more complex administratively, physicians are having a hard time staying on top of it. It may not be just lack of time…many physicians lack the expertise to manage their
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How do you define a successful practice? Everyone will answer this question differently, and they will all be right, for them. But, no matter what your definition of a successful practice, there are several criteria that must be met in order for you to obtain the success that you want to achieve. Integrating any or all of these
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Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Written by Kari Sicard
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Appealing a Medicare Denial for Payment of Services |
If you accept Medicare payments in your practice then you have undoubtedly had Medicare claims denied for payment. Often there appears to be no logical reason for denial of payment (and I would argue there is no logical reason for the denial). I have had Medicare payments denied for payment, my office resubmitted the claim without a
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I came across an editorial that was published in the November 11, 2010 issue of USA Today concerning the number of patients who die every year due to medical ‘adverse events’. They cited a recent report from the Department of Health and Human Services which estimated that 180,000 patients die every year from ‘adverse events’ in the healthcare field
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On Monday, January 31st, Federal Judge Roger Vinson, declared the Healthcare Reform Bill unconstitutional, setting up a path for the new law to be heard by the US Supreme Court. It may take weeks or months until the final decision on the Healthcare Reform Bill is reached. In the meantime, we should discuss real healthcare reform that
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On Monday, January 31st, Federal Judge Roger Vinson, declared the Healthcare Reform Bill unconstitutional, setting up a path for the new law to be heard by the US Supreme Court. It may take weeks or months until the final decision on the Healthcare Reform Bill is reached. In the meantime, we should discuss real healthcare reform that
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