Mitch's Blog

A couple of days ago, I presented for the first hour of a meeting for the Mid York Medical Accounts Management Association, of which I’m a board member and 2-time president. Once I was finished, our second presenter, from the New York State Insurance Department, and was going to talk [...]

Two weeks ago, I had to “pull rank’ on someone who was working in a physician’s billing office. This one person kept calling my mother and telling her that she had to contact an insurance carrier on the physician’s behalf because the insurance carrier was incorrectly paying on my mother’s [...]

As some of you know, I have a second health care site called Medical Billing Answers. It was set up to give basic information on things that have to do with medical billing and the revenue cycle process.
When I first set it up, I began a process where I would [...]

Strange as it sounds, it seems that there’s a difference in outcome for visitors to the emergency room based on whether a person has insurance or not. A study by Harvard University showed that uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice [...]

I had lunch today with another health care consulting friend of mine, George Chapman. I also do work on his website, and he participated in my interview series.
We started talking about health care coverage for the uninsured, and I was mentioning my idea of a health care plan to him. [...]

Back in June, there was a poll that came out saying the majority of people in this country wanted universal health care coverage, and they were willing to pay for it. As a matter of fact, the number wasn’t even close; 85% favored it.
So, I’m wondering just what’s happened in [...]

My friend Jim Yarsinsky of , whom I interviewed here last year, has created a new blog called, smartly enough, Jim Yarsinsky’s Expeditive Blog.
Jim’s in the field of health care interim placement services, and it works much differently than many other types of placement firms. With other firms, sometimes they [...]

On Twitter earlier today, someone inadvertently brought to my attention an article called Making The Most Of Your Emergency Room Visit.
I thought, for part of it anyway, that the premise of the story was incomplete. In essence, the article gives the hospital ER’s perspective of what their perfect patient [...]

First, the latest T. T. Mitchell Consulting Newsletter, Credibility, and the latest Healthcare Newsletter, Three Things, are now available.
Because I’m in health care, I’ve been reading a lot of things lately that talk about how health care is going to take a tumble in these bad economic days, and how many [...]