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When President Obama was running for the office of president, one of the things he kept talking about was the need for electronic medical records (EMR). When he was trying to push the health care bill, one of the things he kept talking about was electronic medical records. Obviously he wanted this to occur, and [...]
We’re in a tough place these days as it pertains to health care. Depending on which side you’re on, it’s either the fault of the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, states, or the federal government. I’d throw the legal system into the mix as well as banks, suppliers and pharmaceutical companies. I could add to the [...]
I was reading HealthLeaders Magazine, where they were talking about all the different things some hospitals across the country are trying to do to make the hospital experience better for patients. Some of the things these hospitals are doing are pretty good, I must say, while others are more for the benefit of the hospital [...]
I don’t consider myself a hospital advocate, a patient advocate, or even a health care advocate. Sure, I take those roles on from time to time, but what I really consider myself is an information advocate, trying to remain fair and balanced while giving out information that’s true, no matter which way it goes. There [...]
Some of you saw my post a couple of weeks ago saying that patient accounting people aren’t necessarily mad that there’s now a health care bill. It seems that health care executives are taking the opposite side on this one. In a story on Healthcare Finance News, it seems that around 3/4ths of all the [...]
Yesterday I was at a meeting of a group called Mid York Medical Accounts Management Association, affiliated with a national group called AAHAM; I’m president of the local chapter. The meeting concerned talking about New York state Medicaid and many of the issues regarding proper billing and coding of claims. At lunch there was myself, [...]
In my last post, I said that I was in favor of the health care bill. Last night the health care bill was passed by the House of Representatives, and at this moment it looks like it’s a done deal. I say it that way because word is that Senate Republicans area ready to introduce [...]
I’ve had to catch up with what’s going on with this health care bill, and frankly, I’m at a crossroads with it. This is the worst part about politics; you never quite get what you want, and you’re stuck having to figure out which way to go because you hate parts of everything you’re supposed [...]
At this point, we all know what’s going on. In Massachusetts, the populace voted in a Republican to fill the seat of Senator Kennedy, and that effectively ended the Democratic block that could force a health care bill upon the masses without Republican support. I think everyone pretty much knew at that point that the [...]
On Tuesday night in Massachusetts the Democrats got a rude awakening for their arrogance in thinking that the election of another Democratic senator was a given and lost a seat in the Senate that they hadn’t been expecting to lose. That now means that they don’t have the numbers to automatically bank on getting a [...]
