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When the government web site for enrolling in “Obama care” crashed and failed to handle the traffic, the president called in the top IT experts who had experience in dealing with problems of this magnitude and the results were a fixed web site. How did they do it? The google... Read More

Original blog post was written by the associates at Simas & Associates, LTD, a government and administrative law firm. The information given is used with their permission. A link to the entire article has been provided below. The Affordable Care Act (the ACA, aka ‘Obamacare’)... Read More

Every day we speak to healthcare practices and physicians who know they are in trouble and need help. Almost 90% of the time, if they had called 6 months ago, we could have helped to prevent the feeling of desperateness most of them express. So when is the right time to begin the... Read More

Every health care organization at one time or another considers outsourcing parts of its operation to a specialized company to meet specific goals, to fill a gap, to tap new resources and sometimes because you simply need to save some money. But are there critical times in the... Read More

In the average medical practice, the effort to reduce cost and improve quality is a people issue. It is a people issue because about 60% of cost and 100% of a practices ability to improve quality or reduce cost lies in people. This does not mean go out and find cheaper labor…in... Read More

In 2012, healthcare spending in the United States hit $2.6 trillion, almost 10 times the $256 billion that was spent 30 years ago. Approximately half of this spending goes toward hospital care and clinical services. It is not uncommon for 40 percent of the providing care costs to... Read More

Successful healthcare practices (whether standalone or clinics) share three characteristics that are true not only in healthcare but also any business or industry.  For years, the belief that healthcare was somehow different than most businesses kept the industry from making the... Read More

An email from a vendor came the other day saying that their tools were designed to make conversion to ICD 10 easier.  So my interest peaked until the reality sunk in that it was really just a sales ploy. The reality is that conversion to ICD 10 is complex and requires months of... 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

Value is a word that gets bantered about on a regular basis.  Generally value can be defined as “importance, worth, or usefulness of something.” In healthcare, it is defined by a number of different markers.  For patients, the value of healthcare may mean wellness.  For Providers... Read More