Are you all over the place when you put out blogs or newsletters highlighting your services? Long gone are the days when you put out a shingle announcing an M.D. is in town and everyone flocks to the office for medical services. Now, competition dictates that a business plan is in place and information disseminating [...]
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of the Actuary more people cut back on healthcare, leading to record-low growth in dollar allocation for doctors but not in healthcare service and product spending. “Consumers had fewer hospital procedures, filled fewer prescriptions and visited the doctor’s office less frequently. People remained cautious about their [...]
This article written by Lee J. Johnson, Esq.; Frank J. Weinstock, MD appeared in Medscape. It is worth reading and discussing. Malpractice Risks Rise With New Pressure on Doctors to Undertreat Introduction Doctors are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Overtreatment may be bad for healthcare costs, but doctors sometimes feel pressured to go too [...]
Today in the New York Times, an issue comes to light regarding the scarcity of cancer drugs, not just for the elderly but for unfortunate children as well. The letter below speaks for this. submitted Sunday, August 07th, 2011 at 6:47 am. ———————— Name: Julian Lieb,M.D Email: Julian@DoctorLieb.com Donald Berwick, M.D Director Centers for Medicare [...]
This is an interview which addresses a question from a follower on Facebook about the use of disclaimers. Q: Barbara: A Healthin30 reader on Facebook writes: “I’m looking for a good disclaimer to put on a couple of medical practices’ Facebook pages. The AMA social media guidelines aren’t helpful. Do you have a good [...]
This week, an article appeared in Medical Economics entitled “Doctor-patient relationship will be damaged by Medicare panel, critics warn” written by Brenda L. Mooney. In this constant swirling controversy of healthcare reform, her comments regarding Medicare is definitely worth a read. You may find the article below. Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act [...]
Medicaid patients, beware! This year, CMS (the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) made a public statement that physicians, nurse practitioners, clinics and hospital facilities will not be reimbursed any more for treating medical problems, injuries, or readmissions when they should were avoidable. This is in keeping with a section of the Affordable Care Act [...]
A recent survey was conducted by Hiscox on the attitudes of small business owners and social media. The results may be surprising to you. Small business owners are still lukewarm about social media: 53% say they use social media for business, but only 12% say social marketing is a must for their business, according to a survey [...]
In these tough economic times, people are having to struggle deciding on which of their medications they can do without. Some are not filling the prescriptions they need to survive. With the rising cost of medicines, it’s no surprise that so many of us are having difficulty paying for them. The average cost of a [...]
