Are you one of the many physicians who sign contracts with payers without negotiating? While you aren’t alone in doing so, know that you might be making a mistake. All healthcare contracts are quite complex legal documents that need to be understood and reviewed before you sign them. Furthermore, negotiating with the payer can help …
Nobody can explain to a doctor or a health care provider how the patient is feeling or what they are experiencing other than the patient themselves. Only the person going through the pain can describe its symptoms, its intensity and any other relevant. However, often, the patients are not very keen on going into details …
Medical care has become a value-based industry where improving the patient’s health and their overall experience has started to matter. Previously, the only thing that mattered to hospitals and the care givers was for the patients to receive the right treatment and to be discharged soon. Once the patient was treated, they thought they had …
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With globalization and advancement in technology, things are changing really fast, which has led to a new trend known as mobile healthcare. Mobile healthcare, as the name suggests, simply means using your mobile phones or wireless technology to provide medical care. Usually, it is used for preventative health care purposes by providing patients and others …
Most businesses are in a hurry to grow. A growth for business may require years of waiting and investing time, effort and most importantly, money. Growth through mergers or acquisitions, also known as M&A for short, can happen overnight. This makes most of us wonder, why would a company want to and would not want …
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Nowadays an average US user spends about five hours on his phone every single day. More than ever, people are engaging on their phones and a great amount of time is spent either on phone apps or on different websites. There are so many apps in the market, developed for all kinds of phones and …
The Healthcare industry is greatly affected by the changes and advancement in technology. The mobile devices have changed the way the healthcare providers used to operate and now they are an essential part of the healthcare system. Mobile devices have proven to be a great help for the medical related personnel because they help them …
Introduction Technology has taken over almost every sphere of life, especially in healthcare and the use of innovative techniques to store millions of terabytes of data is becoming more common and accessible to the general public with every passing day. One might wonder as to what leads to cybersecurity being a major challenge to healthcare …
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When you think of healthcare, you automatically think of the patients. It is rare that you consider the health of the physicians present in the equation. Yet, your healthcare providers and physicians may need treatment. One of the common ailments among physicians is physician burnout. It is so common in America that over 50% physicians …
The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) has been expanded by CMS in April. The MDPP is a payment model that is based on performance. Compared to the old approaches, this is a new take on type 2 diabetes preventive measures. All Medicare beneficiaries who are eligible for the model and show signs of pre-diabetes can …