There’s no question that healthcare in America is in trouble. However, most of the time we hear about it from the patient’s perceived perspective of not being able to afford healthcare coverage, high insurance costs, physicians not treating them with courtesy, etc. Well, there are two other perspectives that aren’t heard from all that often […]
Over the last few days I was at Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY, which is only about 35 minutes from my house, at the HFMA Region 2 Fall Institute. It was actually a joint venture between three HFMA chapters in this state, the Northeastern NY Chapter, the Central New York Chapter (of which I’m […]
This is going to be a relatively short post, based on my normal standards. Of course we have an election coming up here in America, and one topic that’s big on the list is health care. Since I’m a health care finance consultant, I have to give my little audit on what each candidate wants […]
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 people are falling into debt because they can’t pay their bills, hospital bills being big among those debts. There are many truths […]
There was an interesting article that popped up on the Medseek blog called Transparency At What Price. Pricing transparency is the latest buzz word that basically means hospitals putting all their prices somewhere so people can see what they’re charging for services. It’s controversial for more than one reason. On one hand, back in the […]
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