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Budget Shortfall Dominates Legislative Session
With pressure mounting to plug a $1.7 billion chasm in the state budget, healthcare providers worry that legislators will again choose to solve the problem by cutting Medicaid reimbursements.
TED GRIGGS |
Survival Guide to Health-System Reform
Where Do Providers Focus Their Attention First?
So, now what?
The massive health-system reform legislation dubbed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is law, enacting the most sweeping changes in America’s health system since Medicare. Experts say now is the time providers should take a deep, cleansing breath, then jump into action with short-term strategies that could pay off down the road.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
RX FOR THE BOTTOM LINE: How to Improve Collections
Two key indicators provide the beacon medical practices need to improve collections: net collection ratio and accounts receivable (A/R) days, according to Todd Warren, executive director of Medical Practice Solutions in Jackson.
LYNNE JETER and MARCEA NEITMAN |
Legislative Affairs: Healthcare and the 2010 Session
The 2010 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature commenced Monday, March 29. Lawmakers will remain in session until 6 p.m. Monday, June 21. It is expected that the state's budget woes will overshadow most issues this legislative session. Lawmakers must agree on a mechanism to address an estimated $1.7 billion budget deficit for the state budget year which begins July 1, 2010.
CINDY BISHOP |
| Best Business Practices Focus |
Before the Breathin' Air is Gone
Luring Physicians "Out in the Country"
Grady, S.C., was one of the lucky rural communities. Unfortunately, it was fictional.
In the 1991 film "Doc Hollywood" with Michael J. Fox, the Porsche Speedster of hotshot plastic surgeon Benjamin Stone breaks down in Grady, and the charms of the community, its people and one woman in particular entice the young physician to hang his family-practice shingle in the rural Southeast.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
Dr. Seth Rosenzweig
Surviving the Storm
When Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans in 2005, it totally disrupted the life of physician-in-training Seth Rosenzweig. At the time, the Tulane University School of Medicine student and his wife were living in the Crescent City with their three small children. Within six months, the Rosenzweigs moved to two states so that he could complete his studies. During that time, their oldest child attended five different schools. "Keeping the family unity, our motivation and our mental psyches, was really tough after the storm," he said. But, survive they did – with a vengeance.
LISA HANCHEY |
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