Mitch's Blog

I’ve written about hospital charge masters in many of my articles on health care. I wrote a one paragraph explanation about charge masters years ago, but it’s not close to being sufficient. This particular article on charge masters is actually a repurposed article that I wrote back in 2011, but search engines don’t include older […]

Six years ago, I got invited to the Floyd Mayweather – Manny Pacquaio fight on a Saturday night. Rather, I got invited to a party where this guy had paid for us to watch the fight on TV. At $100 a shot, which I didn’t know until just before I left, I guess it was […]

I sometimes wonder if people think that I’m hard on hospital leadership. I want to stress that there’s nothing further from the truth. The reason I talk about it from time to time as being somewhat different than almost anything else is because health care is a different animal than any other business. Whereas most […]

Years ago I was in an airport, trying to get to my next destination. It turned out that the weather was bad all up and down the East Coast, and many flights were being canceled, including mine. However, mine hadn’t yet been canceled as I sat in the area waiting to be called to board […]

Most of what is done in patient accounting (aka patient financial services) is fairly simple and routine. The days of only paper claims are gone (but not totally eliminated). These days, if registration has done its job, and the departments have done their jobs, and your charge master is up to date, most of the […]