Author Archives: Morgan Hensley

The Rundown | Week of 12.18.2017

Busy provider looking for healthcare news? Check out The Rundown. New Tax Bill May Hamper Healthcare Should the new Republican-backed tax bill pass, ending the individual mandate, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that five million fewer people will have coverage through the individual insurance market, five million fewer will be enrolled in Medicaid and three …

Small Business Ownership and Private Practice: Alike, yet Different

Growing up the son of grocers taught me a lot about running a small business. In my family’s Washington, D.C. mom-and-pop convenience store, generating revenue was usually a straightforward endeavor. I started stocking shelves at the age of five. By my late teens, I was managing the store. I quickly learned that if the distributor …

The Rundown | Week of 12.11.2017

Busy provider looking for healthcare news? Check out The Rundown. CHIP Funding Dwindles Quickly According to a new report by CNN, 16 states will run out of Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) funds by the end of January. Currently, nine million children in low-income families rely on this program for health insurance. Congress has yet …

Cockroaches and Patient Records

CMS recently issued a mandate requiring Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) eligible clinicians to prove that they are not restricting the sharing of patient data. Does this signal the death of the fax machine, American healthcare’s cockroach? I recently listened to an interesting podcast by Vox’s Sarah Kliff that calls faxes the “cockroaches of healthcare.” …

The Rundown | Week of 12.4.2017

Busy provider looking for healthcare news? Check out The Rundown. U.S. Healthcare Spending Growth Slows According to a new Reuters report, growth in healthcare spending slowed in 2016 due to a slower health insurance enrollment growth. Healthcare spending grew 4.3% in 2016, to a total of $3.3 trillion dollars, compared to 5.8% growth in 2015. Out-of-pocket …

Peak Practice Performance: Finance

Has your cash flow weakened over the last few quarters?  As we approach the holidays and the end of the year, many practices notice a decline in revenues. Even if your cash flows are good, you may be wondering how your practice can maintain a steady stream of cash month over month. In this Peak Practice Performance …

Value-Based Care: Why Physician Engagement is Key

The only practical way to make value-based care a reality is for healthcare organizations to take physician voices seriously in decision-making processes, writes Tim van Biesen and Josh Weisbrod for HBR. In a recent survey conducted in partnership with Bain & Company of 980 U.S. physicians across eight specialties, HBR found that physicians express a …

Population Health and Primary Care Providers

A new inforMD by Privia blog series, “Population Health & You,” brought to you by Rick Foerster, VP, Population Health, Privia Health Now that we’ve defined population health (a feat that many in healthcare avoid in the first place), let’s dive into what population health means to primary care providers. When it comes to operationalizing …

Physicians, Payers, and Patients: Partnering for Success

Fee-for-service initiated a healthcare system that led to skyrocketing prices, which eventually undercut the ultimate goal of medicine: providing patients with high quality care at the best cost, for the optimal patient outcome. Physicians and payers often feel at odds in their sometimes competing methods of arriving at the same goal of patient well-being. These …

The Rundown | Week of 11.13.2017

Busy provider looking for healthcare news? Check out The Rundown. The First Digital Pill Has Been Approved- What Does That Mean For Healthcare? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved a swallowable sensor, in the form of a pill, to track when patients take their medication, as reported  by CNBC. These pills can …

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