Whose Fault Is It?
When I am consulted for an issue with a “bad physician,” my first question to the person in charge is: “Are you prepared to fire this doc?” Firing used to …
5 Reasons Why Health IT Is Worth the Risk
Security breaches are reported every day. The safety of health information, and the clear fact that there are government-sponsored hackers out there, make us all the more concerned about the …
RAC Audits: Follow the Rules and We’ll Deny You Anyway
No one questions the right of any payor to audit its payments to detect fraud, patterns of abuse or patterns of error. Around $5.4 billion were returned to the Medicare …
‘Those Guidelines Don’t Apply to Me’
I was taking a peer review call from a pediatrician. For those of you who don’t know, a request for “peer review” means a physician-to-physician conversation about something that was …