On Twitter earlier today, someone inadvertently brought to my attention an article called Making The Most Of Your Emergency Room Visit. I thought, for part of it anyway, that the premise of the story was incomplete. In essence, the article gives the hospital ER’s perspective of what their perfect patient would be that’s coming to […]
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 […]
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 […]
The general public is now starting to hear about something that the healthcare community has been freaking out about for awhile now. We use the term “RAC Audits”; to the uninitiated, that stands for “recovery audit contractors”. Their basic purpose is to go into hospitals and other types of healthcare facilities and determine if Medicare […]
(originally published January 25th, 2006) Though it hasn’t happened to me yet, at some point all of us are going to spend a little bit of time in the hospital, or know someone who’s spent some time in the hospital. Hospitals are expensive places for many reasons I’m not going to get into now. What […]
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