2018 Billing Huddles/Rounds 
The Healthcare Blog
MARCH 18, 2024
Doctors used to take notes mostly in shorthand, leaving the abstraction of these notes for coding and billing purposes to be done by some poor sap in the basement of the hospital. The introduction of electronic medical records made this a major pain point. But there is definitely more to come.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
And bad debt — write-offs that come out of uncollected patient bill balances after “significant collection efforts” by hospitals and doctors — is challenging their already-thin or negative financial margins.
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Health Populi
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
I noted this Morning Consult survey , data shown here, finding that people of color who were lower-income as of June 2020 had a more difficult time paying for Internet and phone bills than white people with lower incomes. Nothing like a public health crisis to bring new awareness to old knowledge.
The HIPAA Journal
APRIL 27, 2025
In OCR’s last round of HIPAA audits in 2016 and 2017, most audited entities were not fully compliant with this important Security Rule provision, as they had either failed to conduct a HIPAA-compliant risk analysis, had not conducted one frequently enough, or their risk analyses were not comprehensive and/or accurate.
Health Populi
MARCH 17, 2020
In the midst of growing inpatient admissions and test results for COVID-19, Congress is working as I write this post to finalize a round of legislation to help Americans with the costs-of-living and (hopefully) health care in a national, mandated, clarifying way. Hospital costs could average over $20,000, the report calculated.
Health Populi
JUNE 28, 2019
But this was Round 2 of the debate, with ten more White House aspirants sharing views — sometimes sparring — on issues of immigration, economic justice, climate change, and once again health care playing a starring role from the start of the two-hour event. Kirsten Gillibrand, Senator-New York. Michael Bennet, Senator-Colorado.
Sensible Medicine
DECEMBER 5, 2024
In 2018 a medical error (mixing a muscle relaxant with the measles vaccine) led to two infants dying tragically. Many of the authors of articles here on Sensible Medicine would fit that bill. Anti-vaccine activist rhetoric and actions led to a decrease in vaccinations starting in the 2010’s.
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