When President Obama was running for the office of president, one of the things he kept talking about was the need for electronic medical records (EMR). When he was trying to push the health care bill, one of the things he kept talking about was electronic medical records. Obviously he wanted this to occur, and […]

This won’t be a popular statement to the majority of people in the United States, but it’s not supposed to be. Folks, it’s always about race; plain and simple. Now, why am I making such a statement? What’s prompting this particular post and how does it pertain to what’s going on in this country? If […]

Some of you saw my post a couple of weeks ago saying that patient accounting people aren’t necessarily mad that there’s now a health care bill. It seems that health care executives are taking the opposite side on this one. In a story on Healthcare Finance News, it seems that around 3/4ths of all the […]

Yesterday I was at a meeting of a group called Mid York Medical Accounts Management Association, affiliated with a national group called AAHAM; I’m president of the local chapter. The meeting concerned talking about New York state Medicaid and many of the issues regarding proper billing and coding of claims. At lunch there was myself, […]

In my last post, I said that I was in favor of the health care bill. Last night the health care bill was passed by the House of Representatives, and at this moment it looks like it’s a done deal. I say it that way because word is that Senate Republicans area ready to introduce […]