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Pay Me or Charge Me: How Best to Engage Me
A couple of years ago, my clinical practice (Dermatology Associates at Massachusetts…
Five Facts about ICD-10 from CMS
There are so many uncertainties surrounding the ICD-10 transition, it’s helpful when…
What Payers Seek from Orthopedic Destination Centers
Mark Xistris is Vice President, Business Development & Provider Relations for The…
EHR Interoperability: Let’s Stop Beating a Dead Drum
For the past many years, I’ve been strongly advocating that the best…
EEOC Regs on Wellness Incentives: Progress, but Many Issues
On April 16, 2015, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) released proposed…
It’s Time to Measure Patient Outcomes
Quality measures, low service utilization or the absence of poor performance is…
Strategies for Payer Negotiation
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear…
Using “Teach Back” to Decrease Patient Readmissions
Marshall McLuhan, the late Canadian philosopher, famously said both “the medium is…
From the Health Innovator’s Collaborative: Providing Better Care with Less
As someone (most likely French philosopher Blaise Pascal) once said, “I would…