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Though being a good manager requires a combination of experience, education, and learned and honed skills, stylistic and subtle changes to how you communicate and direct your teams can make significant impacts. Here are some simple tweaks all managers can put to use, for improved leadership outcomes. No one said it would easy, but does […]
Read MorePhysician involvement is an especially crucial element at several levels for hospitals transitioning to ICD-10, according to healthcare IT consultant D’Arcy Guerin Gue, writing in ICD10monitor.com. Not only does accurate physician documentation “drive the production of ICD-10 codes,” according to Guerin Gue, executive vice president of corporate services for Richardson, Texas-based Phoenix Health Systems, but […]
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Read MoreOrganizations continue to prepare for testing and the switch to ICD-10, but smaller entities still anticipate difficulties, according to an AHIMA survey. The survey, conducted in May and June, included representatives from 454 healthcare organizations, most from hospitals and physician practices. Sixty-five percent of respondents said they could begin end-to-end testing before the Oct. 1, […]
Read MoreMuch to the consternation of organized medicine, a federally funded Medicaid pay raise for physicians will expire at year’s end without any Congressional action to extend it into 2015. However, all is not lost for physicians who saw their Medicaid rates boosted to Medicare levels for evaluation and management services and vaccine administration in 2013 […]
Read MoreGetting More from Your Employees the 20-60-20 rule: The top 20 percent of employees get 80 percent of the work done, with the rest done by the average employees (60 percent) and little if any done by the worst 20 percent. End ‘equal treatment’ today! Focus on high performers, Those high-performing workers can achieve as […]
Read MoreA New York state judge sentenced an anesthesiologist to a minimum of 10 years and 8 months in prison for operating a pain pill mill in New York City and recklessly causing the deaths of two patients. In July, a jury found Stan Xuhui Li, MD, guilty of two counts of second-degree manslaughter in the […]
Read MoreMusic often plays a role in the intimate — and at times downright complicated — relationships between doctors and patients, according to one of BMJ’s humorous holiday offerings. Researchers evaluated a 2012 Guardian blog in which readers recommended songs about doctors. In the songs, doctors were generally portrayed as follows: · Drug dealers (5% of songs) […]
Read MoreWhen a Patient Trashes You Online “Hitler should have burned this doctor. Then we wouldn’t have to deal with this scum doctor.” This inflammatory snippet was a real review that appeared on a well-known physician review Website. Welcome to the sometimes harsh world of the Internet. Consumer reviews have long permeated most industries. Healthcare is […]
Read MoreA Letter You Never Want to Receive You’ve received a letter from your state medical board, and you read that a patient has filed a complaint against you. You’re sure the complaint is groundless, and you’re furious that the patient went to the board instead of bringing his concerns to you. How you respond — […]
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