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What's working in EMR and EHR?

irtony — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:57:18 GMT

Tell us what is working in the whole area of EMR and EHR?

Should be HIPAA

Charlene — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:16:30 GMT

Just a little spelling correction....it's not HIPPA, it's HIPAA. "Health Information Portability and Accountability Act".

Forum: HIPPA

Use of the internst for personal time

irtony — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:51:20 GMT

We are setting up a policy for the use of internet during working hours or even on breaks. What about personal email use, MySpace or Facebook use during working hours or on breaks. What is the best policy concerning the use of the internet?

Forum: Personal Internet Use

What is your poicy on cell phone use in the office?

irtony — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:49:01 GMT

We want to find out what everyone's cell phone policy is to help set our own policy. What is working, what doesn't.

Forum: Cell Phone Policies

Medicaid/Medicare patients--anual deductible

Health1 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:54:09 GMT

Are Medicaid/Medicare patients responsible for their annual deductible?

Forum: Billing/Coding

emr

cshekar — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:32:25 GMT

Have medisoft for billing, would like to have an idea if there are any inexpensive emrs that would work in conjunction with it. thanks ms

Forum: Billing/Coding

Policy for dealing with multiple missed appointments in a calendar

Health1 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:19:27 GMT

What is your policy for dealing with multiple missed appointments in a calendar?

Forum: Patient Issues

NPI

PNam — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:04:32 GMT

Where can I find some succinct info on NPI and medicare?

Thanks

Forum: HIPPA

Medicaid Patients

devon04 — Thur, 14 Feb 2008 03:34:42 GMT

We do not accept patients with just medicaid, but the doctor will see them if they have a primary to medicaid. how can we draft a letter for those patients to sign to let them know we do not accept medicaid as sec, and they are responsible for what is left over that medicare does not pay?

Forum: Billing/Coding

EMR and practice revenue

candysue — Thur, 14 Feb 2008 03:28:28 GMT

Do you believe that electronic medical records will increase your practice revenue, and if so, have you implemented it yet?

Forum: Technology

MVA Billing

Kimberley — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:40:02 GMT

Do you bill out for 60 day reports to all the MVA accounts? If so how much?

Forum: Billing/Coding

What is going on with insurance panels?

Drberg — Thur, 13 Dec 2007 18:49:56 GMT

I'm having trouble with several large insurance companies in Florida having closed panels. Anyone know what's going on?

Forum: Administrative Issues

I received this from a friend - anyone one to comment on it?

footpc — Thur, 13 Dec 2007 16:25:31 GMT

I saw on the news up here in Canada where Hillary Clinton introduced her new health care plan. Something similar to what we have in Canada . I also heard that Michael Moore was raving about the health care up here in Canada in his latest movie. As your friend and someone who lives with the Canada health care plan I thought I would give you some facts about this great medical plan that we have in Canada .

First of all:
1) The health care plan in Canada is not free. We pay a premium every month of $96. for Shirley and I to be covered. Sounds great eh. What they don't tell you is how much we pay in taxes to keep the health care system afloat. I am personally in the 55% tax bracket. Yes 55% of my earnings go to taxes. A large portion of that and I am not sure of the exact amount goes directly to health care, our #1 expense.
2) I would not classify what we have as health care plan, it is more like a health diagnosis system. You can get into to see a doctor quick enough so he can tell you 'yes indeed you are sick or you need an operation' but now the challenge becomes getting treated or operated on. We have waiting lists out the ying yang some as
much as 2 years down the road.
3) Rather than fix what is wrong with you the usual tactic in Canada is to prescribe drugs. Have a pain here is a drug to take- not what is causing the pain and why. No time for checking you out because it is more important to move as many patients thru as possible each hour for Government re-imbursement.
4) Many Canadians do not have a family Doctor.
5) Don't require emergency treatment as you may wait for hours in the emergency room waiting for treatment.
6) Shirley's dad cut his hand on a power saw a few weeks back and it required that his hand be put in a splint - to our surprise we had to pay $125. for a splint because it is not covered under health care plus we have to pay $60 for each visit for him to check it out each week.
7) Shirley's cousin was diagnosed with a heart blockage. Put on a waiting list . Died before he could get treatment.
8) Government allots so many operations per year. When that is done no more operations, unless you go to your local newspaper and plead your case and embarrass the government then money suddenly appears.
9)The Government takes great pride in telling us how much more they are increasing the fundi ng for health care but waiting lists never get shorter. Government just keeps throwing money at the problem but it never goes away. But they are good at finding new ways to tax us, but they don't call it a tax anymore it is now a user fee.
10) A friend needs an operation for a blockage in her leg but because she is a smoker they will not do it. Despite paying into the health care system all these years. My friend is 65 years old. Now there is talk that maybe we should not treat fat and obese people either because they are a drain on the health care system. Let me see now, what we want in Canada is a health care system for healthy people only. That should reduce our health care costs.
11) Forget getting a second opinion, what you see is what you get.
12) I can spend what money I have left after taxes on booze, cigarettes, junk food and a nything else that could kill me but I am not allowed by law to spend my money on getting an operation I need because that would be jumping the queue. I must wait my turn except if I am a hockey player or athlete then I can get looked at right away. Go figger. Where else in the world can you spend money to kill yourself but not allowed to spend money to get healthy.
13) Oh did I mention that immigrants are covered automatically at tax payer expense having never contributed a dollar to the system and pay no premiums.
14) Oh yeah, we now give free needles to drug usersto try and keep them healthy. Wouldn't want a sickly druggie breaking into your house and stealing your things. But people with diabetes who pay into the health care system have to pay for their needles because it is not covered but the health care system.

I send this out not looking for sympathy but as the election looms in the states you will be hearing more and more about universal health care down there and the advocates will be pointing to Canada . I just want to make sure that you hear the truth about health care up here and have some food for thought and informed questions to ask when broached with this subject.

Step wisely and don't make the same mistakes we have.

Forum: Issues regarding Universal Healthcare

Hippa- insurance reimbursement

JRCHIRO1 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:19:33 GMT

Do you know that the insurance companies violate hippa everytime they take money from another patient to pay the provider if there has been an overpayment and you do not send them a check?

Forum: HIPPA

Does HNA produce billing disks?

TMILLS — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:12:40 GMT

Just wondering if HNA produces a billing disk for it's providers?

Forum: Billing/Coding