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When AOL President and CEO Tim Armstrong told a town hall meeting that a couple of AOL’ers had spent $1 million each for distressed babies the social media and AOL staff went off the charts.  And while calling out the 2 AOL employees publically should not have been aired; what’s... Read More

The Affordable Care Act now requires that preventive care visits and preventive services, including lab work, be provided without any deductible payment. While it may appear to be a great idea for wellness centered care, it presents patients (particularly those with... Read More

Receiving the right healthcare begins with having the right information in the right hands.  To those who see multiple providers, coordination of care may be the difference between consistent improvement and no improvement in chronic illnesses.  It may also help identify changes... Read More

We don’t make a lot of New Year’s predictions, but we are happy to make this one: 2014 will be the year the get-well-quick mentality driving corporate and individual health choices implodes…and people start taking genuine steps to be healthy. The way to ensure that 2014 is your... Read More

Sunday on Meet the Press, both the President of Mayo Clinic and the CEO of Cleveland Clinic were discussing healthcare in 2014.  Both made these observations: Everyone will be paid less in 2014 for services. Healthcare delivery models must become more efficient. Payment for... Read More

2014 holds many challenges for healthcare practices.  Being prepared is vital to the success of each practice.  Of course there are the routine things that practices need to be aware of at the beginning of each year:  contracts with payers need to be examined and re-negotiated... Read More

One of the by-products of the Affordable Care Act, the so called Obama Care, is the rise of high deductibles.  High deductibles have always been around; the difference is this…..volume.  In most practices, the volume of high deductibles has been sparse as most patients are either... Read More

The health care law has altered the competitive landscape by encouraging a new wave of competitors and creating a marketplace that puts a much sharper focus on price, because individuals can so easily compare premiums on a single Web site. About a quarter of the insurers... Read More

“Chief Strategy Officer”, an interesting title.  And in these unsure times, may be just what healthcare practices need.  Everyone is under the pressure of what will happen next…..how do we capitalize our strengths…minimize our weaknesses, deal with the healthcare exchanges,... Read More

Patient portals as a way of communicating with and to patients is now becoming more popular with patients and physicians.  While patient portals require no small amount of IT expertise and over-sight to build and maintain; once established, they provide a platform for... Read More