Download or read book The Billion Dollar Cottage Industry of Healthcare Billing written by Douglas A. Perednia and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and Save Trillions (9780132173254) by Douglas A. Perednia. Available in print and digital formats. America’s stunningly complex, insanely inefficient healthcare billing system: How it works--or, more precisely, doesn’t work. No single aspect of the healthcare system is more inefficient, destructive, and harmful to the average American than the way in which medical services are currently priced, billed, and paid for. It is hard to conceive of a system that is harder to understand, more difficult to adhere to, more expensive to implement and operate, and less conducive to the public welfare than ours....
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Download or read book Start Your Own Medical Claims Billing Service written by Entrepreneur Press and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Low startup requirements make this a great homebased business! As insurance regulations and paperwork requirements get more complicated, doctors and other health care providers are turning to third-party billing services to take care of their billing needs. It's an $18-billion dollar industry that's growing like never before creating a growing niche for entrepreneurs who are experts at tunneling their way through the paper avalanche. With expert advice from medical claims billing professionals and the latest industry information you'll learn everything you need to know to get into this perfect starter business including: Researching the market Calculating startup and operating costs Finding clients Getting referrals Demystifying medical jargon Dealing with insurance carriers Telecommuting options and online work Professional networking Startup requirements and costs are minimal, opening the door for anyone to get started in this lucrative field.
Download or read book Start Your Own Medical Claims Billing Service written by The Staff of Entrepreneur Media and published by Startup. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As insurance regulations and paperwork requirements get more complicated, doctors and other health care providers are turning to third-party billing services to take care of their billing needs. It's a multi-billion dollar industry that's growing like never before, creating a growing niche for entrepreneurs who are experts at tunneling their way through the paper avalanche"--
Download or read book The Breakdown of the American Healthcare System Volume I written by Dueep Jyot Singh and published by Mendon Cottage Books. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents Introduction Historical Background Do You Know That – Real Life Medical Costs What Are Your Doctors Really up to? And the Insurance Companies… The Role of Pharmaceutical Companies Author Bio Publisher Introduction While corresponding with a large number of my friends all over the world, I cannot resist asking them about their health, being a bit of a naturopath guru myself. Believe it or not, a large percentage of them tell me about the expensive healthcare systems in their particular countries, and they really do not know how to pay their medical bills. So this book is going to tell you all about the healthcare systems all over the world, and how the American healthcare system has failed to provide a cost-effective, efficient, and economical health resource for Americans. Also, you are going to get to know a little bit about all the medical insurance loans , medical plans, and alternatives being offered by your particular state governments and central government, in order to help you pay your medical bills. These are being offered to you, supposedly as one of the benefits of the American government, supposedly through their feeling for your welfare, good, and benefit. However, many Americans do not know that medical care and treatment is a fundamental basic right of a citizen of a country, and is being offered by a number of countries free of cost, or at a nominal subsidized price in many parts of the world. So consider this book to be an eye-opener on how medical practices and medical plans are bankrupting you completely, because you are going to spend the rest of your lives, paying off your medical bills. Along with this, you are going to know a little bit about alternative medicine, state-of-the-art treatments at one twentieth the cost, which you would get in America, and other parts of the world. So let us start with a little bit of a background, about how the American medical plan system has been taking advantage of its patients for the last 200 years or more.
Download or read book Which Country Has the World s Best Health Care written by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world.
Download or read book Health Professions Education written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.
Download or read book America s Bitter Pill written by Steven Brill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “A tour de force . . . a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare . . . persuasive, shocking.”—The New York Times America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare. And it is the first complete, inside account of how President Obama persevered to push through the law, but then failed to deal with the staff incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation. But by chance America’s Bitter Pill ends up being much more—because as Brill was completing this book, he had to undergo urgent open-heart surgery. Thus, this also becomes the story of how one patient who thinks he knows everything about healthcare “policy” rethinks it from a hospital gurney—and combines that insight with his brilliant reporting. The result: a surprising new vision of how we can fix American healthcare so that it stops draining the bank accounts of our families and our businesses, and the federal treasury. Praise for America’s Bitter Pill “An energetic, picaresque, narrative explanation of much of what has happened in the last seven years of health policy . . . [Brill] has pulled off something extraordinary.”—The New York Times Book Review “A thunderous indictment of what Brill refers to as the ‘toxicity of our profiteer-dominated healthcare system.’ ”—Los Angeles Times “A sweeping and spirited new book [that] chronicles the surprisingly juicy tale of reform.”—The Daily Beast “One of the most important books of our time.”—Walter Isaacson “Superb . . . Brill has achieved the seemingly impossible—written an exciting book about the American health system.”—The New York Review of Books
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Download or read book The American Health Care Paradox written by Elizabeth Bradley and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers why U.S. society is believed to be less healthy in spite of disproportionate spending on health care, identifying a lack of social services, outdated care allocations, and a resistance to government programs as the problem.
Download or read book InfoWorld written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-08-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: InfoWorld is targeted to Senior IT professionals. Content is segmented into Channels and Topic Centers. InfoWorld also celebrates people, companies, and projects.
Download or read book Money Driven Medicine written by Maggie Mahar and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan on health care—yet few would argue that our health care system is twice as good. Instead, startling new evidence suggests that one out of every three of our health care dollars is squandered on unnecessary or redundant tests; unproven, sometimes unwanted procedures; and overpriced drugs and devices that, too often, are no better than the less expensive products they have replaced. How did this happen? In Money-Driven Medicine, Maggie Mahar takes the reader behind the scenes of a $2 trillion industry to witness how billions of dollars are wasted in a Hobbesian marketplace that pits the industry's players against each other. In remarkably candid interviews, doctors, hospital administrators, patients, health care economists, corporate executives, and Wall Street analysts describe a war of "all against all" that can turn physicians, hospitals, insurers, drugmakers, and device makers into blood rivals. Rather than collaborating, doctors and hospitals compete. Rather than sharing knowledge, drugmakers and device makers divide value. Rather than thinking about long-term collective goals, the imperatives of an impatient marketplace force health care providers to focus on short-term fiscal imperatives. And so investments in untested bleeding-edge medical technologies crowd out investments in information technology that might, in the long run, not only reduce errors but contain costs. In theory, free market competition should tame health care inflation. In fact, Mahar demonstrates, when it comes to medicine, the traditional laws of supply and demand do not apply. Normally, when supply expands, prices fall. But in the health care industry, as the number and variety of drugs, devices, and treatments multiplies, demand rises to absorb the excess, and prices climb. Meanwhile, the perverse incentives of a fee-for-service system reward health care providers for doing more, not less. In this superbly written book, Mahar shows why doctors must take responsibility for the future of our health care industry. Today, she observes, "physicians have been stripped of their standing as professionals: Insurers address them as vendors ('Dear Health Care Provider'), drugmakers and device makers see them as customers (someone you might take to lunch or a strip club), while . . . consumers (aka patients) are encouraged to see their doctors as overpaid retailers. . . . Before patients can reclaim their rightful place as the center—and indeed as the raison d'être—of our health care system," Mahar suggests, "we must once again empower doctors . . . to practice patient-centered medicine—based not on corporate imperatives, doctors' druthers, or even patients' demands," but on the best scientific research available.
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Download or read book The Business of Healthcare Innovation written by Lawton R. Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first wide-ranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing segment of the health care industry.
Download or read book Catastrophic Health Insurance and Medical Assistance Reform written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Skin in the Game written by John Hammergren and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the American health care system has consistently been criticized for its noticeable detriments, few have taken the time to recognize the significant benefits and potential of this system. But with Skin in the Game, authors John Hammergren and Phil Harkins provide a comprehensive overview of the history of our health care system, an explanation of its current state, and a picture of the great strides that they see being made in the near future.
