General Business

There’s one major reality in life. None of us wants to be seen as less than what we might be in any form. Sure, sometimes we come to grips with certain things that just aren’t going to happen. For instance, I’m never going to be able to dunk a basketball. I’m never walking into a […]

I don’t often write short posts, but this one qualifies as one of the shortest articles I’ve written in 16 years. Photo by Julien Maculan on Unsplash The date was 9/11/01; the time was 8:46AM. The stock market was supposed to open that day; it didn’t. Other than holidays or weekends, the stock market had […]

Many years ago I wrote an article on one of my other blogs that I titled 46 Ways To Reach Your Own Super Bowl. The article contained 46 motivational thoughts (since it was posted around the 46th Super Bowl) that I thought were pretty cool to share. my motivational mantra What I didn’t do was […]

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 […]