Mitch's Blog

I don't do relaxation well. I consider Fridays my day off, but I usually don't know what to do with myself. My go to relaxation or entertainment is to head to the casino for a few hours of fun and relaxation. It's not exactly relaxing, but it takes my mind off myself for a while... whether I win or not.

sometimes I win!

One time many years ago, after I decided it was time to head back home, I turned around and saw something about 10 feet in front of me. I thought it was a folded piece of paper initially, but as I stepped closer I saw it was money. I opened it up and it was a hundred dollar bill.
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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!). The people I talk to (or try to talk with) at the C-suite […]

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 […]

Even though this article is geared towards financial leaders in health care, the same ideas shared here for them can be modified for leaders in any business. When all is said and done, solutions are created and solved by leaders, whether or not they want to blame staff when problems arise. I once answered a […]

June 16th, 2002, was the day my father, Lloyd E Mitchell, passed away; that’s 20 years and the anniversary date for this year. I’ve been thinking about it since March 2022, six months after my mother passed. Dad passed away on Father’s Day, a day I haven’t celebrated since then, because I didn’t want to […]