Mitch's Blog

Everyone has heard the phrase “Two heads are better than one“. I’m going to say that, when it comes to being a manager or leader, this isn’t always the case. One of the problems we have with government is that, sometimes, there’s too many people with too many differing opinions to get anything done. Not [...]

There have been some amazing transactions over the past couple of days from our president-elect, Barack Obama. They’re unprecedented in history because he’s doing some things now, before he’s even taken the job of president of the United States, that no other president-elect in history has done. For instance, within a couple of days of [...]

First, the latest T. T. Mitchell Consulting Newsletter, Doing The Right Thing, is now available. That topic seems to go well with this story, because it shows what can go wrong when people don’t do the right thing. A 19-year old male named Abraham Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday. He committed suicide after signing onto [...]

There’s no question that healthcare in America is in trouble. However, most of the time we hear about it from the patient’s perceived perspective of not being able to afford healthcare coverage, high insurance costs, physicians not treating them with courtesy, etc. Well, there are two other perspectives that aren’t heard from all that often [...]

President-elect Barack Obama was on 60 Minutes last night with his first in person interview since being elected. Right off the bat, you could tell that there were some questions he just wasn’t going to answer, and it was proper for him not to answer those questions. I’ll tell you why. Mr. Obama was asked [...]

First, the latest issue of the T. T. Mitchell Consulting Healthcare Newsletter, 2009 CPT Code Changes, is now available. At the risk of possibly offending some people, I’ve been wondering lately, as we get near the end of the Bush Administration, how most people would evaluate the leadership of our current lame duck president. To [...]

Yes, the look has changed once more. It seems that the other theme just wouldn’t hold its format, and it finally went bad on me today,even with the update to Firefox 3. I just couldn’t continue having that problem, so I’ve changed to this one, which I think is pretty nice looking, and a little [...]

When I look back through my blog, I realize that I have touched upon the subject of having to deal with the consequences of one’s actions many times. The first time was when I addressed the Jennifer Wilbanks story back in 2005 (she was the woman who disappeared a day before she was going to [...]

Every once in awhile, we all get upset or irritated by someone else, and they’re probably getting irritated with you at the same time. It’s hard in both personal and working relationships when this type of thing happens. In the book Crucial Conversations, they give plenty of scenarios and tips on how to deal with [...]

I can’t believe I’ve never mentioned this before, but I have a new website dedicated to answering questions on issues related to medical billing, or the revenue cycle in general. The site is called Medical Billing Answers. I’ve set it up in basically three categories, though you won’t necessarily see it that way. The first [...]