Top at Risk DRG’s in the Post ICD-10 Era & How to Proactively Address Coding Challenges
ICD-10 is expected to be fraught with significant challenges to coding quality because: ICD-10 is expected to be fraught with significant challenges to coding quality because:Dealing with a very new…
Facebook Fundamentals: Being “Social” Where It Counts
[Article Series: An excerpt from a forthcoming book by Mark Tager, MD, and Stewart Gandolf, MBA, for private practice physicians and healthcare administrators about reaching, recruiting and retaining private pay…
Implantable Drug Delivery Systems: Delivering Medication One Dose at a Time
Controlled, site-specific release of drugs and other therapeutic agents has emerged as a rather attractive alternative for companies that are looking to boost the efficacy of an existing product.Thebigger winner,…
Heroes Behind the Counter & In Other Places
The Marvelettes in 1963Patients are cool. I did a colonoscopy on a hospitalized man who was saddled with the ravages of obesity, diabetes, sleep apnea and respiratory disease. My…
Contract Renewal May Result in Loss of Business for Florida Hospital
Adventist Health System, parent company to Florida Hospital, renewed its contract with Florida Blue in May of this year. The contract renewal includes the termination (effective October 1, 2015) of…
Mette Dyhrberg talks about application of patient-generated data and self-tracking at Doctors 2.0 & You 2015 #doctors20
Meet Mette Dyhrberg who is at once an entrepreneur, an economist, the inventor of a mobile app, an educator, and a patient. Watch the video of her presentation at Doctors…
How Health IT Plans to Focus on Patient-centered Healthcare
On Monday, September 23rd the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), outlined their continued vision, goals and strategy…
Broward Health Agrees to Pay Almost $70M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations – Whistleblower Could Receive More Than $12M
On September 15, 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Broward Health, an operator of more than 50 health care facilities in South Florida, agreed to pay $69.5…
15 Ways A Doctor Can Get More Patients Using the Internet
As an online marketing consultant, specializing in the healthcare industry, I work with doctors and other healthcare professionals every day. One thing I hear more than anything else is (phrased…
