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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 [...]
This won’t be a popular statement to the majority of people in the United States, but it’s not supposed to be. Folks, it’s always about race; plain and simple. Now, why am I making such a statement? What’s prompting this particular post and how does it pertain to what’s going on in this country? If [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 about no fault billing. About [...]
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 account. The major problem, however, [...]
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 allow people to send [...]
