Recent Articles
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Insurers invoking all-product clauses to fill exchange plan networks
Pamela Lewis Dolan Healthcare AdministrationSome physicians are experiencing confusion and surprise by learning they are contracted to accept patients covered by insurance exchange plans despite the fact they rejected offers to participate in those plans. Plans are invoking what is known as an “all-product clause.” This is a provision many physicians may not be aware are present in their contracts, but essentially force physicians contracted in a particular payer plan to participate in all of the plans offered by that payer in the state, including those offered through the exchanges.
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17 of the most specific, bizarre ICD-10 codes
Charlotte Bohnett Healthcare AdministrationCome October, healthcare professionals will go from using the library of 13,000 codes in ICD-9 to that of 68,000 in ICD-10. As The New York Times explains, the new code set “allows for much greater detail than the existing code [set], ICD-9, in describing illnesses, injuries and treatment procedures. That could allow for improved tracking of public health threats and trends, and better analysis of the effectiveness of various treatments.”
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Teaching evaluation systems – Making education more effective
Bambi Majumdar EducationTraining and education are the foundations for teachers' careers in their initial years. Their success and effective contribution to future generations happen only through a process of continuous improvement, which is through upgrades to their knowledge, enhanced teaching aids and objective feedback for their performance.
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Suppliers — Your best untapped resource
Michael J. Berens Association ManagementOne of the biggest challenges any manager has is not knowing what you don't know. It's demanding enough to keep up with all the things you need to address without contemplating what other forces may be at work "out there" that could affect your members or your association.
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The Flying Circus: Summer salts
Garth WallaceCOPA eFlight presents another weekly excerpt from "The Flying Circus," a fun book by Canadian aviation humorist and former COPA publisher Garth Wallace. "The Flying Circus" is a fictional account of the madcap escapades of two instructors who start their own flying school armed with loads of enthusiasm, but little business sense and no money.
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Tracking soft-tissue management success rate
Jill Nesbitt Oral & Dental HealthcareFor years, I've read in dental journals that 30 percent of people have gum disease. Therefore, dentists should have 30 percent of their recall patients either in soft tissue management programs or perio maintenance.
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Rule-making process has begun for Stage 3 of meaningful use
Pamela Lewis Dolan Healthcare AdministrationDespite Stage 3 of the meaningful use incentive program being delayed until 2017, rule-making for the program is under way. And the Meaningful Use Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee, which advises federal officials on the program, recently released its first set of draft recommendations.
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Porsche sets US sales record, with eye on further growth in 2014
Becky Bicks Transportation Technology & AutomotivePorsche sales are one thing that hasn't suffering in today's cloudy economic environment. The company set a new record with 43,323 vehicles sold in the U.S. in 2013, a jump of 21 percent.
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Energy and revolution in the Ukraine
Lucy Wallwork Natural ResourcesIf we look a little deeper in the Ukraine, the question of energy has played no small role in the eruption of violence on the streets of Kiev, where Ukrainians rely on Russian gas for over 50 percent of their energy needs. Where revolution comes, energy never lies far beneath the surface.
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The role of nurses in an aging population
Keith Carlson Healthcare AdministrationIt's no secret that the population of the United States — and the world at large — is aging rapidly. The Baby Boom ended around 1964, and since those heady days of relative economic prosperity and population growth, the birth rate hasn't kept pace with the rate of aging.