Posted November 26th, 2008 by Rick Creveling
Rohan D’Souza of D’Souza & Associates generously provides the following information on medical coding issues. Rohan is Vice President of D’Souza & Associates in Hockessin (and a prospective DMGMA member.) Please feel free to email educational articles to me any time at rick@kingforms.com. Please feel free to post your reaction and related experience to Rohan’s [...]
Tags: D'Souza, Happy Thanksgiving, Medical Billing, medical coding, practice management, reader-contributed article, Rohan D'Souza, undercoding
Posted November 24th, 2008 by Rick Creveling
One of the themes of last week’s DMGMA luncheon centered on the challenges presented by caring for difficult patients. Several attendees spoke up about belligerent patients – some who used abusive language with office staff, while others used threatening behavior during office visits. Our speaker alluded to a general lack of civility in today’s society. [...]
Tags: abusive behavior, difficult patients, discharge, november luncheon
Posted November 18th, 2008 by Rick Creveling
I checked out an interesting article on CNN.com regarding disatisfaction among primary care physicians. Have a look:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/17/primary.care.doctors.study/index.html
The article cites a study recently released by the Physicians Foundation, stating that 49% of 12,000 physician respondants would consider leaving medicine. The majority of the fingerpointing in the piece is aimed at the demands and intricacies of managed [...]
Tags: CNN medical article, DMGMA discussion, happy doctors, managed care, physician satisfaction, physician survey, unhappy doctors
Posted November 13th, 2008 by Rick Creveling
Millions of professionals have entered the world of social networking. Once the domain of their children, social networking web sites have “grown up” to become a powerful business networking tool for adults.
The web site LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) provides an easy-to-use online meeting place to connect with like-minded professionals. I’ve been a member for the better part of a [...]
Tags: DMGMA, LinkedIn, medical practice management, professional networking
Posted November 11th, 2008 by Lori Rhoads
My name is Rick Creveling and I work for King Medical Systems. Every day I speak with clients on ways to improve their practice operations. Nearly every day I also speak to the same people about the value of DMGMA membership.
I’m starting my third year of DMGMA membership and look forward to contributing [...]
Tags: delaware medical, DMGMA, medical education, medical managment, MGMA, new blog, practice managment
