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Surging Forward: UCF COM Wraps Banner First Year
Medical students in the charter class of the University of Central Florida (UCF ) College of Medicine definitely made a difference to the community—local and international—during their first year of school.
LYNNE JETER |
Healthcare Reform Boosts Primary Care
Reimbursement Incentives Offered to Ease the Strain
Well, it’s done, and depending on your perspective, the historic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that sets about reforming America’s health system could be a boon or it could be a bust. For most stakeholders, reality is somewhere in the middle.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Hospitals Opposed Cap on Inmate Charges
Florida Hospital and Orlando Health Have Agreements with Local Counties
Just as the expense of healthcare services are crippling the rest of the American economy, so too have counties felt the pinch – arguably more so – when paying the hospital bills for jail inmates.
DAVID ROSENFELD |
Insurers Push Back Against Medical Loss Requirements
Attempting to Redefine Quality Improvement, Insurers Hope to Loosen New Spending Rules
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said he would ask the federal government for a waiver or a reasonable definition of medical expenses before it imposes a minimum medical loss ratio requirement on health insurers beginning next year.
DAVID ROSENFELD |
Straight Talk About selecting Medical/Dental Office Space
Locating your professional office is an important step in determining the success of your practice. Rather than sending you out on the road to LWDA (Look while driving around), let me quickly guide you through some important site selection criteria.
FRANK RICCI |
Treating Advanced Benign Gynecologic Conditions
AMISGS Teaches Advanced Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgical Techniques
A new program at Florida Hospital Orlando teaches advanced minimally invasive gynecologic surgical techniques for the treatment of advanced benign gynecologic conditions to medical students, residents and fellows.
JULIO GONZALEZ, MD, with LYNNE JETER |
Medical Missionaries
Four first-year medical students from the UCF College of Medicine traveled to Haiti over spring break in April to help provide medical care to residents of the island nation devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake.
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MedWAR Adventures
UCF College of Medicine students competed in the 10th annual Southeast Regional MedWAR (Medical Wilderness Adventure Race) held earlier this year in Fort Gordan, Ga.
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Pressure Mounts to Reduce Infections
Creator of Program to End BSIs Says Providers Should be Doing More
More than 30,000 Americans die each year from completely preventable blood stream infections acquired at hospitals. In Florida, 22 intensive care units have reduced the incidents of those infections to zero, according to the Florida Hospital Association.
DAVID ROSENFELD |
RX FOR THE BOTTOM LINE: How Not to Let a Patient's Deductible Deduct from your Pocketbook
When a patient comes to your office for service and is fortunate enough to have insurance, there usually is a deductible that must be met before the insurance company starts paying for submitted claims.
The patient is responsible for this deductible. This amount is extremely high in some cases.
Therefore, some patients are going to do what they can to get around paying their deductible while seeking medical care.
MINERVA DEJESUS and AURIANA REYES |
To Roth or Not to Roth, That is the Question
New Roth conversion calculators are showing up every day since income limitations have been lifted for high earners this year with a “one time special offer” to spread the tax bite of conversion out over two years. If you use one of these, don’t say I didn’t warn you about how misleading the results might be. Like any program, the output is only as good as the input, and some of those inputs are the assumptions the program uses in the analysis. These assumptions about the future (which is of course uncertain) can wildly skew the answer and make the Roth look artificially attractive.
AUDREY WEHR JONES, CFP® |
Kissimmee – St. Cloud Region: Osceola Regional Medical Center: A Comprehensive Medical Resource for Central Florida
Since the opening of its new building in 1997, Osceola Regional Medical Center has come into its own. After a subsequent $55+ million expansion in 2004, the Joint Commission accredited facility further expanded its service lines and invested in state-of–the-art technology never before available in Osceola County. It's all part of a plan to create a comprehensive, cutting edge medical facility for this growing region. The following highlights illustrate the hospital's commitment to serving Central Florida.
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Practice Manager, Who’s On Your Team?
Now that healthcare reform is hitting your practice squarely in the eyes, it is important to realize as a practice administrator or manager the importance of everyone in your medical circle. In other words, now is the time to call upon all resources within and around your practice to promote teamwork for success. This requires that you become aware of the existing team of resources you have available to you and your practice and utilize them.
REBECCA MOREHEAD |
Miniaturized Probe Helps Provide More Critical Cardiac Function
ImaCor, Inc. (Uniondale, NY) has recently introduced a new device that will assist in the management of hemodynamically unstable patients in the ICU and perioperative situations. The ClariTEE™ probe is a miniaturized, disposable transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) monitoring probe that can be used in the assessment and management of cardiac function, intravascular volume status, and the presence of tamponade.
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Fostering an Epidemic of Skin Cancer
Dermatologists Take Aim at Indoor Tanning
On an average day in America, more than 1 million people visit an indoor tanning salon. That’s why dermatologists nationwide have declared war on the practice, which research overwhelmingly has shown causes cancer.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
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Playing Well With Others
Building Strong Relationships in an Evolving Environment
In theory, hospital administrators, physicians and nurses are all on the same team with the same ultimate goal — delivering the highest quality of patient care possible. In practice, those relationships are easily strained as fiscal realities, misaligned objectives and strong personalities are factored into the equation.
CINDY SANDERS |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Michael Alan Karr, MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Orthopaedic Associates-Osceola
KISSIMMEE—Michael Karr, MD, had planned to have a military career like his Marine dad, Lloyd, but hit a snag during the application process to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.
LYNNE JETER |
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