The One Thing You SIMPLY MUST Do To Safely Use Telemedicine
Take it seriously. Telemedicine is serious business. A doctor whom you don’t know and who doesn’t know you is going to evaluate your medical problem and possibly prescribe a medication for treatment. She doesn’t know your history, your values, or your preferences except for what you tell her. And you’re doing it over the phone […]
A Body of Knowledge
Looking for insights on how to succeed as a Medicare Advantage Prime? Everything you need to know is right here. How about succeeding as an organization with your Medicare Advantage contract? This is where you need to go. Are you patient looking for unbiased Medicare Advantage information? Here’s everything you need […]
Buying Studies in Bulk
If you’re a single speciality primary care group or even a multi-speciality group without your own imaging center, consider buying your imaging studies in bulk from an outside vendor and then using them on the patients in your panel as the need arises. Check your Medicare Advantage contract, but many will […]
Sunday Links
Come and get it! Most of the MA links across the web this week are consumer advocacy pieces written in local publications. They would all do better to simply refer patients here. –yet one more example of how Medicare Advantage has gone mainstream. The ACA was supposed to be funded by […]
Saturday Q and A
Dr. Cathy wrote me to ask: “Thank you for all your writings. My comp formula is being changed so that I can lose or gain up to 20% of my RBV revenue based on how much my money my Medicare Advantage patients cost. What should I do?” Cathy, You don’t say how many Medicare Advantage […]
Know Your Financials
The financial reports you get from your employer and your insurance partners are the key to your happiness. Understand them, and you’ll understand where your can capture the greatest value for your labor. Fail to do so, and you’ll simply push yourself to create more billable encounters […]
YourTelemedicineCommunity.com
Point your browser to YourTelemedicineCommunity.com and follow all my regular postings dedicated to your success in telemedicine. Industry insights. Actionable tactics. Business tips. The ONLY place on the net where you’ll find all this purely from a clinician’s perspective and 100% directed towards your success. YouTelemedicineCommunity.com Be there!
An Open Enrollment Guide
Open enrollment is here for Medicare Advantage—and here’s what you need to do to keep yourself safe: Don’t purchase a plan from someone who contacts you—either by mail, phone, or message. Use the Medicare plan finder tool to compare plans but be careful. There are many look-alike web pages which are actually […]
A Disturbing Trend in Non-Competes
Check your contract to make sure your non-compete is centered at the primary office in which you practice, rather than any office site the health system owns. The “primary office”language has long been standard, but as competition for clinician labor heats up (I recently saw a pop up ad recruiting general internists […]
Career Coaching
I find it curious to that even as clinicians, we ourselves have training in the process of helping our clinicians make positive change—quitting smoking, losing weight—we don’t see the process of our own career transitions as similar. They are. Change involves addressing both the emotional and practical aspects and […]