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Long Term Disability Insurance and the Physician Practice
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In this 20-minute podcast, attorneys Jason Newfield and Justin Frankel from Frankel and Newfield, Attorneys at Law discuss the meaning of "dual occupation" in the claims process, the importance of specialty language, common misconceptions about the specialty letter, the definition of residual claims and why they matter, opportunities and pitfalls to backdating of claims, and the major misconceptions surrounding group disability policies, private policies and association policies.
www.frankelnewfield.com
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Interview with Nick of Medical Blog Blogborygmi and Organizer of Grand Rounds
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Kent Bottles, MD, interviews medical intern Nick of Blogborygmi (http://blogborygmi.blogspot.com). The discussion provides an explanation of medical blogs, and discussions that include the concept behind, and the future of Grand Rounds (Carnival of Caregivers); why physicians are late-adopters of technology; the future of medical blogging; current criticisms of medical blogs as compared to peer-reviewed writings; new interesting technology in medicine; the transition from in-patient care to out-of-facility health care; and recommendations on how to dig in to medical blogging.
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Washington Update Podcast with Owen Dahl
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Tune in to hear nationally-recognized expert Owen Dahl discuss the following: The impact on the overall health care legislative picture based upon the results of the recent Congressional elections, who are the new key players (and the key issues) to watch in the 110th Congress, status of the 5% across the board SGR mandated cut of the physician fee schedule and what role administrators and physicians can play with healthcare issues and politics.
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Taking the Leap - Becoming a Health Care Consultant
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Starting a health care consulting business involves more than expertise in your field: it takes business savvy, lots of financial smarts, excellent people and communication skills and marketing know-how. Consulting in heath care is one of the hottest trends in the market today, as more and more people appreciate the independence and flexibility it brings and the range of potential income that the business can generate. In this podcast Betsy Nicoletti, author of Physician Auditing Workbook and owner of Medical Practice Consulting, shares the strategies that worked for her, as well as mistakes made along the way.
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Podcast: The Patient-Centered Medical Home: How to Advance Patient Care Through Technology with Jim
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In this 20-minute podcast, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jim Stape, Practice Manager at Gilbert Center for Family Medicine</span> in Gilbert, Arizona, <a href="http://www.gilbertcenter.net" target="_blank">www.gilbertcenter.net</a> discusses the lessons learned by their small practice in applying for, and successfully gaining, NCQA patient-centered medical home recognition. He covers why the practice executives thought that they could achieve NCQA patient-centered medical home recognition, how and why incorporate Health IT to measure and report on care-giving activities, the tools and processes that have been especially helpful to them, the top benefits to the patients, and words of wisdom (and encouragement) for other small practices applying for the PCMH recognition. This podcast accompanies the excellent article that Jim Stape wrote for the Nov/Dec issue of The Journal of Medical Practice Management. For listeners who want a free copy of this issue, send an email to info@greenbranch.com.
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