A few months ago I was speaking for a hospital TAP, (trustee, administrator, physician), executive retreat in New Orleans. One outstanding dinner was at Antoine’s but it was the food for thought that still lingers from a conversation with a physician and his wife, Donna. Donna’s a lawyer. This doctor/lawyer discussion was memorable and insightful.
There is an […]
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Shi**y Jobs Fertilize Future Prospects
21-Jun-07Monday morning I keynoted the Georgia Assoc. for Home Health Agencies (GAHHA) annual meeting on St. Simons Island. During lunch, I had the chance to have great conversation with Kay Smith, RN. Kay and her husband Hal were co-recipients of  the Captain C. C. Dudley Award for “outstanding leadership and dedication in pursuit of excellence in provision of Home Health services […]
We Fear the Wrong Things
15-Jun-07In Marc Seigel, MD’s book, False Alarms: The Truth about the Epidemic of Fear, Dr. Seigel relates that despite the hype in the media about exotically terrifying diseases, like mad cow disease, is misplaced with the public. Your risk of contracting mad cow makes the odds of winning the Powerball Lottery seem attainable!
I remember one […]
Let me introduce you to my friend Jeffrey Segal, MD, FACS. Jeffrey is a neurosurgeon and has developed a business called Medical Justice. Essentially, Jeffrey converts Tort (malpractice) law into Contract law. Allow me to overly simplify. There are three parties: a physician, a patient, and insurance company, (technically “companies”).
Old Tort Model: The patient […]
There are different “languages of healthcare.†Clinicians speak patient language but often don’t speak the healthcare language of regulation, quality, or finance. It pays to understand and effectively translate from one dialect to another. For instance, “medical necessity†may sound “clinical†but it’s really financial. For CMS, “medical necessity†doesn’t mean something that’s “medically necessary,†[…]
Do you remember when HCFA, (a.k.a. CMS), released new documentation guidelines about ten years ago…. And then a few years later released “new†guidelines but promised to eventually release a totally revamped version… but you’ve been puzzled why that, frankly, never materialized? Well, it turns out the reason they’ve taken so long in “updating†those […]
