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Podcast: Interview with David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP, Professor and Chairman of the Department of He
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David B. Nash, MD, MBA, FACP, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Health Policy at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University of Philadelphia author/editor of 17 books, and repeatedly named by Modern Healthcare to the top 100 most powerful persons in healthcare list is interviewed about his latest book, Practicing Medicine in the 21st Century, published by the American College of Physician Executives, www.acpe.org
In this 20-minute podcast interview with Nancy Collins, Publisher of The Journal of Medical Practice Management, Dr. Nash discusses the challenges facing physicians today, the characteristics of an ideal practice, how physicians can improve the quality of their care, how physicians can prepare for pay-for-performance (P4P) and the extra training that physicians might find useful in the new era of medical practice.
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Recognizing and Dealing With Impaired Clinicians Part II - Treatment Options
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Medical licensing boards and clinical societies encourage (and most boards require) physicians to report colleagues reasonably suspected of not practicing safely and competently. Failure to report unsafe, incompetent, or illegally acting clinicians can seriously damage patients, the profession, and the doctor himself/herself. Good-faith reporting is generally protected from lawsuit.
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Negotiate Contracts Carefully With Part-time Doctors by Daniel M. Bernick, J.D., M.B.A.
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Medical practices will increasingly need part-time physicians and indeed are becoming aware that many doctors prefer or require only part-time employment. This podcast sketches the emerging demographic patterns fueling this trend and discusses some of the contractual details to consider in terms of salary, benefits, liability coverage, and noncompete covenants.
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Improving Accounts Receivable Performance
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In this podcast Ms. Davis-Jacobsen describes steps that the "better performing" practices take in order to improve AR, she reviews the components of an effective AR monitoring system, describes statistics and useful benchmark comparisons that are available to medical practices and she summarizes the most important steps a practice can take to improve accounts receivable performance.
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Interview with Rita Schwab, CPCS, CPMSM of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and founder of MSSP Nexus
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The MSSPNexus web site and blog were created to support and publicize the vital work of the medical staff services profession. It focuses on news and information for medical staff service professionals and others who work in healthcare management, medical staff administration, quality, accreditation, law and provider credentialing.
Discussion includes the importance of blogging in providing news and information for medical administrators; credentialing physicians; examples of "phony doctors" and how the credentialing process helped expose them; the role of blogging for physicians and hospitals in the future; characteristics of a good blog; validity of information on the Internet and how medical blogging is self-correcting.
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