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Plantar Fasciitis and Obesity
Plantar fasciitis is an inflammation of the band-like ligament at the bottom of the foot called the plantar fascia. This band runs from the tubercles of the calcaneus to the metatarsal heads and is responsible for helping the foot adjust to different terrains, as well as helping the foot turn...
Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:25 pm |
Peer-to-Peer Health Care: Generating Hope
More often than not, the most important part of your social media presence is not what your organization or practice has to say, but what your patients have to say – especially to one another. Peer-to-peer interaction is one of the most valuable functions of social media...
tim@gobigfishgo.com - Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:23 pm |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Barrett G. Haik, MD, Ophthalmologist
Leading the fight to eliminate blinding disorders
They said it couldn’t be done. But, in 1995, Barrett Haik, MD, left the prestigious first endowed chair in ophthalmology at Tulane University – a chair that bears the name of his famous father – to tackle an impossible dream in Memphis. Fast forward 17 years,...
JUDY OTTO - Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:20 pm |
Grand Rounds January
Medicare Covers Screening And Counseling For Obesity The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that Medicare is adding coverage for preventive services to reduce obesity. This adds to Medicare’s existing portfolio of preventive services that are now available without cost sharing under the Affordable Care Act...
Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:55 pm |
ACOs Today
Where are we? Where are we going? How will the rules be affecting providers?
In the year 2000, there were approximately 43 million Medicare eligible beneficiaries in America. When the last of the Baby Boomer generation reaches age 65 in 2035, there will be close to 78 million folks eligible to participate in the Medicare program...
BARNEY HEBERT - Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:52 pm |
Hospitals’ New Focus: Heal Thyself
Employers, employees tackle weighty problem
While hospitals typically respond to their patients’ immediate healthcare needs, they now are adding their employees’ health to their list of priorities...
DAPHNE THOMAS - Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:39 pm |
Memphis’ Child Advocacy Center Seeks Healing For Victims
On guard against sexual abuse
In the wake of the recently publicized sexual abuse charges against two former assistant college coaches, Jerry Sandusky of Penn State and Bernie Fine of Syracuse University, and Memphian Robert “Bobby” Dodd, President and CEO of the Amateur Athletic Union, there...
PAMELA HARRIS - Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:35 pm |
MEDICAL ECONOMICS: Well-Advised To Use Tax Advisors
Ever-changing laws make these experts more valuable than ever for medical practices and small businesses. During the last few years, we have seen a multitude of changes in tax and healthcare law. Numerous provisions in these bills affect medical practices and small businesses...
RENEE GOETZKA, CPA - Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:28 pm |
Financial obstacles slow race to beat Congress
Hospitals and physicians’ groups may become more prominent in 2012 as a result of the politicization of healthcare reform in 2011. Aware that some reforms may actually stick, healthcare providers are racing to beat Congress to the punch...
JONATHAN DEVIN - Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:23 pm |
Healthcare community embarks on year of prevention
As the local medical community continues grappling with healthcare reform, the year 2012 is almost certain to be an extension of what already has been occurring. “What you have is the providers, insurance companies and state and local governments getting ready for the big year, which is 2014,” said Cyril Chang,...
LINDSAY JONES - Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:20 pm |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: Angie Wilson
Committed to maintaining group’s quality of care
Angie Wilson loves healthcare. “It’s who I am,” she said. “I’ll probably continue working forever.”
While she has not served as the administrator for Memphis Gastroenterology Group (MGG) forever, she has been there for the past 17 years. Her nebulous job title serves as a catch-all for a professional who manages the...
DAPHNE THOMAS - Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:12 pm |
Tennessee Moves Up in Health Rankings
State Climbs Three Notches from 2010
After years spent in the bottom 10 when it comes to health rankings in the United States, Tennessee pulled up to number 39 in the nation...
CINDY SANDERS - Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:22 pm |
Hot Topics in Health Law
CMS Issues Final ACO Rules
On October 20, 2011, CMS released the Final Rules governing Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). A centerpiece of discussion in the healthcare industry of late, ACOs are a significant focus of the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) introduced in March, 2010.
Cory Brown - Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:48 pm |
Novel Target Agent for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Colon cancer [CRC] is the third leading non-squamous-basal cell cancer in the western world. While it is largely preventable with screening colonoscopy, approximately 150,000 new cases of invasive disease are diagnosed annually in the US, of which one-third die.
Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:48 pm |
Tennessean Tapped to Lead ACEP
New President Brings Broad Perspective to National Role
David C. Seaberg, MD, FACEP, was installed as president of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) at the national organization’s annual scientific meeting in mid-October.
CINDY SANDERS - Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:48 pm |
Rapid Change of Healthcare Landscape Obvious in Memphis
As healthcare reform and Medicare reimbursement cuts continue to loom, physician practices and larger hospital systems continue courting each other not only in the Memphis area, but nationally as well.
LINDSAY JONES - Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:48 pm |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: Michael O. Ugwueke
Selfless leader deems success serving in a dual capacity
Healthcare administration today has many new facets. Its ever-changing surfaces within the hospital sector often require many hats.
KELLY EVANS - Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:48 pm |
MEDICAL ECONOMICS
Seeds of Change
BILL APPLING - Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:48 pm |
RX for the Bottom Line
The Downside of Upcoding
You might not think upcoding is an issue we should worry about, but research shows it affects the entire medical community.
MINERVA DEJESUS and AURIANA REYES - Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:48 pm |
HPV Prevention and Policy
Don’t let vaccination controversy impede progress, expert says
Earlier this year, following a debate among candidates seeking the Republican nomination for president of the United States, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R- Minn., blurted out on national television
JEFF WEBB - Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:48 pm |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Carolyn M. Chesney, MD
Unique specialty proves valuable in many areas
No, Memphis Coagulation Laboratory Director Carolyn Chesney, MD, doesn’t run the world. But she probably could if she wanted to.
JUDY OTTO - Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:48 pm |
Growing Phenomenon Prompts Rise in Men’s Clinics
Hormone replacement therapy has become a growing trend, not only in women, but in men between the ages of 40 and 80. That’s because many are experiencing low levels of testosterone.
KELLEY EVANS - Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 5:48 pm |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: Kem Mullins
CEO, St. Francis Hospital-Bartlett
St.Francis-Bartlett Hospital CEO, Kem Mullins, gets energized dealing with the many facets that make up the management of a hospital.
JANE SCHNEIDER - Posted: Friday, November 4, 2011 9:10 am |
MEDICAL ECONOMICS: Physician Connection
The Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) has submitted a letter to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an agency that advises Congress on issues affecting Medicare...
BILL APPLING - Posted: Friday, November 4, 2011 9:10 am |
Technology’s Latest ‘Tumorbuster’
Baptist acquires CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System
The future is here: tumor treatment that is painless, requires no anesthesia, no incision, allows for treatment in the patient’s own clothes...
CONSTANCE ADCOCK - Posted: Friday, November 4, 2011 9:10 am |
Cloud Coverage
IT Environment for Medical Community Provides Challenging “Whether”
Determining whether medical providers need cloud computing has become somewhat of an art.
LYNNE JETER - Posted: Friday, November 4, 2011 9:10 am |
Hospitalists Focus on Growing Need
Hospitalists are celebrating their 15th anniversary this year; their unique subspecialty – which has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent years – was labeled and defined in 1996 by R. M. Wachter and L.
JUDY OTTO - Posted: Friday, November 4, 2011 9:10 am |
The Empowered Patient Can Make Things Easier
In September, Healthy Memphis Common Table and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation held an event called, "Care About Your Care."
Reneé S. Frazier, FACHE, MHSA, CEO, Healthy Memphis Common Table - Posted: Friday, November 4, 2011 9:10 am |
Health Care is a Shared Experience
Bigfish recently hosted a social media seminar for Memphis-area health care professionals.
Tim C. Nicholson, Bigfish - Posted: Friday, November 4, 2011 9:10 am |
“Malignant” Diabetes
Diabetes has been around since ancient times.
Posted: Friday, November 4, 2011 9:10 am |
Tennessee Welcomes New Health Commissioner
Dr. John Dreyzehner Takes Top Public Health Spot
Some people set out on a journey with their course completely mapped out. Others take the scenic route, being drawn down different paths along the way.
CINDY SANDERS - Posted: Friday, November 4, 2011 9:10 am |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Robert Burns, MD
Internal medicine, geriatrics, hospice and palliative care
It was upstate New York in the small town of Batavia, situated halfway between Buffalo and Rochester and known for turf farms and its harness racing, where Robert Burns grew up.
CONSTANCE ADCOCK - Posted: Monday, October 10, 2011 10:16 am |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: Lynn Doyle
Executive Director of Business Development and Marketing, Delta Medical Center Memphis
As the executive director of business development and marketing at Delta Medical Center Memphis, Lynn Doyle likes to affect change.
JANE SCHNEIDER - Posted: Friday, October 7, 2011 10:03 am |
Found Money
ONsite Mammography providing extra income stream to OB/GYN practices
When a patient arrived at a well-established Florida OB/GYN practice for her annual exam, which also included a scheduled screening mammogram...
LYNNE JETER - Posted: Friday, October 7, 2011 10:03 am |
It’s Good to Have CHOICES
TennCare Programming Changes Face of Long-Term Care
Options are always more fun than ultimatums.
CINDY SANDERS - Posted: Friday, October 7, 2011 10:03 am |
Methodist Healthcare Leads CPOE Implementation
The debate is long past. For better or for worse, electronic medical records (EMR) are the future of healthcare and the clock is ticking...
JUDY OTTO - Posted: Friday, October 7, 2011 10:03 am |
Your Practice – Your Brand
In earlier columns in this publication, I have discussed media relations, crisis communications and social media for the medical profession.
Ralph Berry, Executive Vice President, Public Relations, Sullivan Branding - Posted: Friday, October 7, 2011 10:03 am |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Chris Ferguson, MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Memphis Orthopaedic Group
When the Cordova High School football team is facing an opponent, team doctor and orthopedic surgeon Chris Ferguson, MD, isn’t always watching the scoreboard.
JANE SCHNEIDER - Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 7:27 pm |
Clinical Integration-The Key to Reform
Everybody is in agreement that the country has significant financial challenges ahead. This is particularly true in healthcare where trends have consistently surpassed inflation.
By George Mayzell, MD - Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 7:25 pm |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: Susan Stralka, PT, DPT, MS
Administrator and CEO, Baptist Rehabilitation - Germantown
Susan Stralka is a multifaceted executive with a multidimensional métier.
CONSTANCE ADCOCK - Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 12:58 pm |
Compounding
Ancient art in a high-tech world
The ancient art of pharmaceutical compounding originated from man’s attempts to seek relief from pain or protection from injury and death.
CONSTANCE ADCOCK - Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 12:58 pm |
Options Available for Bundled Payments
One of the biggest opportunities for healthcare payment reform in history opened up in August when the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation announced its new Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative.
HAROLD D. MILLER - Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 12:58 pm |
MEDICAL ECONOMICS: Physician Compensation
In November, 2010, when speaking to the Small Business Council of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce on health care reform, I said that I believed we would ultimately see health care reform decided by the Supreme Court.
BILL APPLING - Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 12:58 pm |
A Look at Physician Compensation
MGMA Annual Survey, Supplemental Reports, Highlight Regional, Specialty Trends
Physicians practicing medicine in the South earn more money than their counterparts in other regions of the country, according to Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) 2011 Physician Compensation and Production Survey.
LYNNE JETER - Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 12:58 pm |
Going the Distance
Listen up if you have little leaguers, aspiring basketball or soccer stars in your midst. With kids playing sports at such an early age, there are things you need to know to keep them in the game.
CONSTANCE ADCOCK - Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 12:58 pm |
Give Them What They Want - You
“I want what I want, when I want it,” is the unofficial theme of our consumer society.
Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 12:58 pm |
Emergency Mobile Health Care, LLC
Caring for and Sharing with the Community
Emergency Mobile Health Care, LLC (EMHC) is a Memphis owned, privately operated ambulance company.
Posted: Monday, September 12, 2011 12:58 pm |
Going Down?
Malpractice insurance rates lower, but why?
After a run-up in rates in the first half of the 2000s that left many physicians wondering how they would stay in business, the cost of medical professional liability coverage in Tennessee ...
STEVE BRAWNER - Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
HEALTHCARE LEADER SPOTLIGHT: Jason Barrett, PhD, MS, CSSBB
Administrator, Southwind Medical Specialists
It’s definitely a new day. When there’s something not-so-good in their neighborhood, medical institutions, organizations or groups don’t call Ghostbusters, Zorro or the A-Team.
JUDY OTTO - Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
Staying Ahead of the Pack
Best Business Practices: Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute
What comes to mind when you think about best business practices? We think of companies that innovate. Medical practices whose leaders make strategic decisions that keep their organizations out front, one step ahead of the pack.
JANE SCHNEIDER - Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
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State of Well-being
Governor Launches Health & Wellness Task Force
Just prior to his inauguration in January, Gov. Bill Haslam announced his intent to create the Task Force on Health and Wellness, assembling members of the public...
CINDY SANDERS - Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
MEDICAL ECONOMICS: Recoupment of Payments by Payers
Recoupments are events where the payer, after any given length of time, requests payment back from the provider for what they deem as payments made in error.
BILL APPLING - Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
The Patient-Centered Medical Home
Dream or Reality?
Consider that in the U.S. only 1/3 of patients released from the hospital are followed up within 60 days.
CONSTANCE ADCOCK - Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
The Geriatrician’s Role
Specialists Could Play Major Part as PCPs in New Shape of Healthcare
With 10,000 Americans turning 65 daily until there will be more octogenarians than newborns, geriatricians are poised to play a major role in the new medical paradigm, the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH).
LYNNE JETER - Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
Relapsed/Refractory Leukemia
Hopeful treatment available
Acute leukemia is an acquired DNA-genetic defect involving the white blood cell progenitor cells, located mostly in the bone marrow.
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
Equity in Health Care: What Does it Mean for Physicians?
Healthy Memphis Common Table
Sixty percent of Memphis is African-American. If you are an African American and live in Memphis, you are three to five times more likely to have your leg amputated due to complications from diabetes than if you are white.
Patricia Tosti, Project Manager, Aligning Forces for Quality - Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
Transforming Health Care
Change is coming in the way that physicians and hospitals are reimbursed for the care they provide.
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: David Jennings, MD
Internal Medicine and Medical Director, Church Health Center
Internist David Jennings, MD, never knew any doctors growing up, but his college job as an orderly gave him the insight he needed to confirm a simple fact: he wanted to become one.
JANE SCHNEIDER - Posted: Monday, August 8, 2011 3:05 pm |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: Jason M. Little
Executive VP and COO, Baptist Memorial Health Care
Nashville native Jason Little marveled that the first thing most people asked when he was promoted to CEO of Baptist Memorial Hospital...
CONSTANCE ADCOCK - Posted: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:20 pm |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Victoria Lim, MD
Otolaryngologist
Victoria Lim’s commitment to a career in medicine—and her fascination with her specialty, otolaryngology—both began early.
JUDY OTTO - Posted: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:20 pm |
Staying Ahead of the Pack
Business Best Practices: Campbell Clinic
What comes to mind when you think about best business practices?
JANE SCHNEIDER - Posted: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:20 pm |
Increasing the Odds
Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute Offers Paired Kidney Donor Program
Almost 90,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a kidney transplant and on any given day 12 people die waiting for a kidney donor. Only some 11,000 receive kidneys a year.
CONSTANCE ADCOCK - Posted: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:20 pm |
Memphis Area OPO Promoting Donor Registration
There are currently more than 111,682 people in the United States waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. Sadly, 18 people will die today and every day waiting.
Posted: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:20 pm |
Hot Topics In Health Law
This article highlights six recent changes and developments in state and federal healthcare laws that have the potential to impact physicians and their practices.
Angela Youngberg - Posted: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:20 pm |
A Dose of Reality
In the ‘old’ days of medical practice, marketing was considered the same as advertising; it simply wasn’t done in any type of medical environment.
George Mayzell, MD - Posted: Friday, July 15, 2011 4:20 pm |
Back from the Brink … But Still Teetering
Governor’s Revised Budget Applauded by Safety Net Advocates
When Gov. Bill Haslam unveiled his inaugural budget in March, a collective gasp could be heard around the state...
CINDY SANDERS - Posted: Friday, June 3, 2011 10:12 am |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: La Don Jones, PhD
Director, Master of Health Administration Program, Associate Professor of Health Administration, University of Memphis
It’s a time-honored belief that the best way to teach is by example. And La Don Jones’ personal blend of commitment, leadership, and passion ...
JUDY OTTO - Posted: Friday, June 3, 2011 10:12 am |
The Urban Child Institute
A Beacon of Hope
Although research reveals that it is never too late to learn, the plasticity of the brain is greatest from birth to about three years of age - the period when the most rapid brain development occurs.
CONSTANCE ADCOCK - Posted: Friday, June 3, 2011 10:12 am |
End of Life Care: A Perspective
Hospice can bring light into a life when it appears that there is none.
CONSTANCE ADCOCK - Posted: Friday, June 3, 2011 10:12 am |
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