Mitch’s Blog

I came upon a post on a blog called The Consumer Healthcare Blog titled 10 Ways To Fix Healthcare, a list culled from 10 experts, though I’m not sure who they are.
I wrote a message on the post, then I decided I wanted to think about it some more afterwards. There’s always this talk [...]

The latest edition of the TTM Consulting Healthcare Newsletter, Serious About Compliance, is now available.
Of course it’s always a big deal when hospitals start talking about compliance, but unfortunately some healthcare entities obviously aren’t treating it as serious business, and that’s getting a lot of healthcare folks in trouble. The government, of course, loves [...]

Tonight I met Allan DeKaye, one of the people who participated in my interview series. We’d talked on the phone before, but never met, mainly because he lives on Long Island, where I haven’t been in over 20 years, and I live here in the Syracuse area.
I always enjoy meeting and having time to [...]

Sometimes it takes a hammer to make someone do the right thing, and unfortunately, if you ask me, that’s the wrong reason.
In this case, I’m talking about Walmart and its reversal of what was initially a bad decision in trying to take back money it paid for a woman’s health care. The quick detail [...]

I’ve finally started work on one of the books I said I hoped to complete this year. It’s a healthcare book, kind of, geared towards, well, anyone who might ever have to go for healthcare services. Yeah, that pretty much sounds like everyone.
The basic premise is how to try to make sure medical [...]

The general public is now starting to hear about something that the healthcare community has been freaking out about for awhile now. We use the term “RAC Audits”; to the uninitiated, that stands for “recovery audit contractors”.
Their basic purpose is to go into hospitals and other types of healthcare facilities and determine [...]

I recently wrote an article that I’ve posted on my main business site titled Misperceptions And Expectations Of The Charge Master / Revenue Review Process.
Basically, it follows up on a theme I started in my last post on how, sometimes, one is trying to market to people who don’t fully understand what it is they [...]

Tonight I’m back home from a convention in Fort Lauderdale. I have to say that I didn’t quite remember some things from the last time I was there, about 3 years ago, and did remember some others.
It’s always nice getting together with colleagues who do some of the same things you do, or used [...]

The same week I’ll be doing the presentation in Arlington, VA, on charge master issues, I’ll also be a part of a teleseminar being put on by HCPro on upfront collections. Along with a gentleman named John Kivimaki, we’ll be covering the pros and cons of setting up such a system in healthcare, as [...]

Ten years ago, I was diagnosed as being a Type II diabetic. I’ve had some ups and downs with trying to control my glucose over that time, starting out only on diet, and now working on it with exercise and medication. I’m still struggling, and at times I have to admit that I’ve [...]