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Well on Its Way
Team Quickly Turning UCF College of Medicine into Premier Medical School
By the time the doors open to the first class of 40 students at the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Medicine on Aug. 3, the team that launched the medical school will have already distinguished the new institution nationally on several levels.
LYNNE JETER |
New State Rules Allow Dr. Phillips Hospital to Expand Cardiac Services
Southwest Orlando Patients May Schedule Elective Angioplasty, Stenting Closer to Home
New state rules implemented earlier this year paved the way for Dr. P. Phillips Hospital to offer patients in southwest Orlando elective procedures to unclog their arteries at a hospital closer to home.
LYNNE JETER |
RX on the Side
Dispensing Medications Provides Revenue Source for Physicians
Many Florida physicians are looking to dispense medications as one way to combat the reimbursement squeeze and proposed national healthcare reform while also creating a new revenue stream.
LYNNE JETER |
Improving the Bottom Line
Healthcare Administrators Focus on Boosting Collections
Listening in on break room conversation at healthcare practices across Orlando, the conversations have similar themes. With Medicaid continuously cutting reimbursements, a growing number of uninsured and underinsured patients coming through the door, concerns about President Obama's healthcare reform agenda, and other economic factors affecting the local economy, practice administrators are buzzing.
LYNNE JETER |
Tax Planning: Take Time for Planning and Strategy
While you are taking care of your patients, who is taking care of your income tax concerns? A few tax planning strategies can legally reduce your tax liability and protect your assets.
Tax planning requires a commitment by the taxpayer in developing strategies: income tax reduction and asset protection. This will positively affect their tax liability in current and future tax years. These tax strategies can be short-term, long-term, business, and personal.
LYNN W. OWEN, III |
The Perfect Storm
The clouds are gathering and the perfect storm is brewing in the healthcare environment. Issues and initiatives are moving rapidly. Keeping up is a real administrative challenge; but if you don't, the perfect storm of all these initiatives will come together and cause revenue losses that are extreme. This article will give a very brief overview of the different issues/initiatives currently in play and the timetables for revenue losses ahead. Preventing the losses takes understanding, planning, and operational changes involving everyone in your organization, and are not without significant expense.
LESLIE WITKIN, Physicians First, Inc. |
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
For Diagnostic and Interventional Coronary Procedures, the Wrist Offers an Alternative Access Strategy with Potential Clinical and Patient Satisfaction Benefits
MARTIN SCHILDHOUSE |
Working to Prevent Drowning Deaths
We're in the heart of summer heat and that means heading to the water for a cool respite and some fun. That means we're also in the middle of drowning season in Florida. We see a spike in drowning deaths beginning in April and it remains elevated through September. Drowning deaths are not limited to lakes and rivers, pools and bath tubs also pose a danger.
Seminole County Health Department |
Not All Recovery Contractors Are Created Equal
A Look at What May be Yet Another Challenge for Providers
This summer, the Tennessee Medical Association and two Nashville physicians filed suit in Davidson County Chancery Court in response to letters sent to multiple Nashville physicians claiming improper billing and payments for medical services performed in 2006 and 2007.
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Physicians Must Negotiate for the Best Deal on Pediatric Vaccines
The Art of the Deal
Pediatricians and family physicians who regularly purchase and administer vaccines to children pay widely varying amounts to manufacturers for those vaccines, resulting in a drastic financial strain for some practices, particularly smaller ones in rural areas.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
| REIMBURSEMENTS/ACOs Focus |
AMA Calls for Medicare Physician Payment Overhaul
Medicare incentivizes physicians to improve patient outcomes and better manage chronic disease, and then punishes the doctors financially for doing just that. That's the Catch 22 at the crux of the American Medical Association's call for reform of Medicare physician payments.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Paul R. Gordon, MD
The odds were certainly against him. Paul Gordon and his sister were raised in a poor, single-parent home in the West Indies by his mother, Carmen, a young secretary Gordon acknowledges was thrown into a difficult, almost stereotypical situation and seemingly pre-destined to represent part of the broader statistics.
LYNNE JETER |
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