5 Best Billing Practices for the Bundled Payment Initiative
The Medicare bundled payment initiative seems to be gaining traction among healthcare facilities and providers.Following are 5 practices that have proved helpful for private practitioners trying to move to this…
Developing Clinical Pathways
When it comes to patient safety, the best way to be prepared is to develop evidence-based plans and strategies to guide patients through the healthcare system. These plans are called…
Enhance Brand Awareness Through Meme Marketing
If you’re responsible for providing content for your healthcare facility’s social media channels, you might be floundering as you attempt to garner likes and retweets. Don’t worry — you’re not…
5 CDC Social Media Activities That Influenced Online Conversations About Ebola
While CDC’s Ebola response efforts surge overseas to help stop the outbreak at its source, at home, CDC corrects misinformation and addresses public fear of a virus unknown to most…
7 Viral Marketing Lessons from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
It’s a pop culture mash-up between a “double-dog dare” and a selfie with a cause.Throughout the US, healthcare marketing professionals (and their supervisors) are marveling at this summer’s continuing success…
Caring Relationships
Small is BeautifulJuxtapositions are thought-provoking. Comparing diverse ideas from several sources often results in new insights and perspectives. Last week’s Tao of Caring post explored the differences between physicians who…
Good Riddance to Routine Pelvic Examinations
So much in medicine and in life is done out of habit. We do stuff simply because that’s the way we always did it. Repetition leads to the belief that…
Massive Data Breach: Time for Sports Analogies?
In reading an account of the recent attack on Community Health Systems that netted the bad guys
How Telehealth Will Support the Triple Aim
Triple Aim 101 You’ll recall that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has adopted the concept of The Triple Aim to serve as a guiding light for healthcare organizations to improve…
Collecting Small Patient Balances: A/R Best Practices
2014 has certainly had the medical profession dealing with major changes in every facet of healthcare. From procedure documentation and coding, to billing and coding policy changes, and even the…
