The Royal Gazette, a Bermuda newspaper, recently exposed reports that the former director of the Atlanta-based National Conference of Black Mayors, Vanessa Williams, made false claims about her authority to organize a conference on the island, and spent five days in Bermuda on a site inspection trip earlier this month, paid for by the...
What to do when patients arrive without proof of insurance
Patients who recently purchased insurance through an exchange may arrive at your office without proof of insurance coverage. When open enrollment began on October 1, insurance companies experienced multiple problems that prevented them from being able to register new policies into their systems. Some companies received incomplete or incorrect information from the insurance marketplaces. Other...
Barriers and Challenges to Physician Integration and Alignment: Aligning Incentives and Cultures
After decades of physician integration and alignment consulting, one thing I can say with complete certainty is that when faced with a choice between a single and a multispecialty group with which to contract, the multispecialty group, if properly formed and organized, will ALWAYS win out in the eyes of a payer. Here’s why:...