Mitch's Blog

In general, I hate talking on the telephone, business or pleasure. However, when it comes to business and getting information you need when it comes to revenue cycle issues, I find that it’s best to pick up the phone and call someone who you believe has the answers. I was doing a consulting assignment in […]

I’m always reading stories on how much health care costs are spiraling out of control, and how hospital charges are astronomical. I’m not necessarily going to debate this one, but I am going to briefly justify why hospitals might charge as they do, and what usually happens. my mother in the hospital Most hospitals in […]

For two decades I’ve worked with hospitals and their revenue cycle issues as an independent consultant. Before that I worked as an employee in hospitals, physician billing companies and a FQHC. I’ve been in health care almost 40 years (man, I’m old!). Yeah, that’s me! The people I talk to (or try to talk with) […]

Years ago I wrote an article titled Why Hospital CFOs Don’t Hire CDM Consultants. I wrote it because I’ve seen and read about a lot of bad advice that’s been given to facilities and companies that hurt them way more than helped. Being an independent consultant, I couldn’t let something like that keep occurring without […]

I’ve written about hospital charge masters in many of my articles on health care. I wrote a one paragraph explanation about charge masters years ago, but it’s not close to being sufficient. This particular article on charge masters is actually a repurposed article that I wrote back in 2011, but search engines don’t include older […]