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Medical billing trouble spots

3 June 2014
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Presenter: Neal
Guest: Karen Moulder
Guest Bio: Karen Moulder was the first woman to be hired in the Brownsville, Texas Fire Department in 1983. Her tomboyish nature and single mother circumstance led her to this fascinating and dangerous career which lasted a little over ten years. Her career involved protecting lives, property, and educating the public on fire safety. She entered a man’s world back when few women did and became a role model for other women. Karen went back to college and majored in business after a car accident ended her firefighting career. She went on to work managing a physician’s office where she obtained her certification in medical billing. She later moved across the country from Texas to Massachusetts where she started her own medical billing company. She now lives there with her five children and two grandchildren. Her Book is entitled “Burning Barriers”

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Karen Moulder talks about some of the problems associated with medical billing and coding that affects patients and physicians alike.

 

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The Health News United Kingdom April 13 2018

13 April 2018
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  • New figures show that hospitals are spending as little as £3 day on food for patients, despite rising numbers of cases of malnutrition. Data reveals 13 trusts spending less than five pounds a day on food, with just £2.61 a day spent by one NHS hospital – little more than the daily spend in prisons. Labour has pledged to introduce new legal minimum standard for hospital food, to ensure patients were better nourished.
  • Inspectors say that some of the failings that allowed rogue surgeon Ian Paterson to harm patients have been found to be widespread across private hospitals. The Care Quality Commission said it was concerned about the “old-fashioned” approach to consultants which led to a lack of monitoring and checks. The regulator said it meant there was a “real danger” poor practices were not being picked up or challenged. Private hospitals said they were responding quickly to the findings.
  • Underpaid, short-staffed and sick with stress – staff at Birmingham’s hospitals are increasingly feeling the strain. According to the latest NHS Staff Survey results, one in seven members of staff at Walsall Healthcare (15.2 %) said they rarely or never look forward to going to work, while it was one in eight (13.1%) at both Heart of England and the Dudley Group.
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The Health News United Kingdom April 5 2018

5 April 2018
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  • “One-stop shops” aimed at speeding up cancer diagnosis are being introduced across England. The aim is to catch the disease earlier and prevent patients from being referred for several tests for different forms of the illness. Patients often face delays when they have non-specific symptoms. NHS England says this is a “step change” in the way people with suspected cancer are diagnosed and treated. The rapid diagnosis and then treatment of cancer can be vital in saving lives.
  • A hospital trust has caused outrage after it described using formula milk as “artificially” feeding babies. Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust used the term as it announced it would no longer provide formula milk in its maternity wards to mothers who had chosen not to breastfeed. A spokeswoman for Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust told the BBC its decision not to routinely provide formula milk to mothers who chose not to breastfeed was part of its commitment to promote breastfeeding.
  • Thousands of ambulances are being prevented from responding to life-threatening nine nine nine calls every day because they are tied up at A&E units, in a significant continuing breach of NHS patient safety rules. The Guardian can reveal that almost 600,000 ambulances faced delays of more than 15 minutes in their crews handing a patient over to hospital A&E staff in the past 3 months – something NHS rules say should never happen. Previously unpublished NHS figures show for the first time that the problem of A&E handover delays is 3 times worse than that portrayed in NHS England’s official statistics.
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Healthcare Wealthcare

9 September 2014
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Presenter: Neal
Guest: Bob Holdsworth
Guest Bio: An active paramedic, speaker and consultant, Bob Holdsworth has spent more than 33 years in emergency medicine, including executive leadership positions in the private sector, volunteer positions in both EMS and Fire agencies, and the role of EMS coordinator, where he developed and ran a hospital-based, regional paramedic service. He is the author of WADING INTO CHAOS: Inside the Life of a Paramedic.

Segment Overview
Bob Holdsworth discusses how physicians and other Healthcare Professionals need to become “business savvy” in order to navigate the financial challenges associated with a practice.

 


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Health Professional Radio

Neal: Hello and welcome to Health Professional Radio. I’m your host Neal Howard. Thank you so much for listening with us today. About eighty percent of Internet users seek online health information. About fifty five percent of the user search for medical treatment or procedure information. There’s all kinds of information online, on television, on radio having to do with the healthcare profession. Many of us sometimes mistakenly think that being a physician, a specialist, a surgeon equals huge dollar signs. Now as it is the case that there are some pretty good salaries to be had in the healthcare profession, it’s sometimes not the money that you make – it’s the money that you keep that defines your wealth. Our guest in studio today is Bob Holdsworth – a successful entrepreneur and also the co-author of “Secrets of Peak Performers: Volume II.” He’s operated many healthcare facilities, businesses having to do with First Responding. He also trains people in the fine art of First Responding. But today, he is here to talk about managing wealth – some of the things to do when you find your wealth threatened and how to market yourself to be a better healthcare provider when people are looking for your services. How are you doing today Bob?

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Millennials, Gen X r’s, and Colorectal Cancer [Interview][Transcript]

4 April 2017
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Guest: Jerald D. Wishner, MD, FACS

Presenter: Neal Howard

Guest Bio: Dr. Jerald Wishner is the Co-Director for The Institute for Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery and the Medical Director for the Colorectal Surgery Program at Northern Westchester Hospital. Dr. Wishner is Fellowship trained in both colorectal and minimally invasive surgery, has received advanced training in robotic laparoscopic surgery, and has been designated as a trainer for robotic general and colorectal surgery by Intuitive Surgical.

Segment overview: March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month and Dr. Jerald Wishner discusses a new report from the American Cancer Society that suggests colorectal cancer rates are rising sharply among younger people (both millennials and Gen X).

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The Health News – 30 November 2015

1 December 2015
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Overview:
• The I Can Network, a new pilot program to help inspire students on the autism spectrum and change negative stereotypes was officially launched in Melbourne this week. And set to be rolled out in schools across Victoria next year. Marymede Catholic School in the city’s north will pilot the program, which is set to expand to 10 schools across the state in 2016.

• A unit diverting less urgent patients away from Perth hospital emergency rooms has come under fire from senior doctors and the Australian Medical Association (AMA). A trial of the “surge” unit run by St John Ambulance at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital is due to end next week, but the AMA fears it may be expanded to other hospitals in a bid to reduce ambulance ramping.

• A sperm donor father who only met his adult daughter six weeks before she died of bowel cancer has backed Victorian moves to strip donors of anonymity. Under a bill introduced into the Victorian Parliament, the name and birthdate of donors will be released to biological children, regardless of donor consent.

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COVID Patient Designed Breathing Machine to Help Others with Illness

4 September 2020
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Dr. Matthew Putman, Ph.D., co-founder, and CEO of Nanotronics, a science technology company, tells of his personal battle with COVID-19 and how he was inspired to create a bilevel positive airway pressure machine (BiPAP) device called nHale.  The device is designed for comfort and ease-of-use with the simplicity of one button. It’s designed for use in hospitals and other healthcare facilities, such as emergency care spaces for COVID-19 patients, prison infirmaries, and nursing care facilities.

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Get Organized On Your Own Terms

16 May 2014
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Presenter: Neal
Guest: Karyn Beach
Guest Bio: Karyn Beach is passionate about helping people live their best lives now, Karyn doesn’t just talk about that, she lives it. She is a game show winner, produced screenplay writer, self-published author, and world traveler who can share how to achieve dreams now … not when the kids are grown, but NOW! Get It Together Girl is Karyn’s radio show, series of workbooks and workshops devoted to helping busy professional women (and men), ‘get it together’.

Segment Overview
Beach discusses getting organized in a way that best fits your personal style.

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The 12 Do’s of Christmas: A Season to Commit to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle to Minimize Waste [Interview][Transcript]

14 December 2016
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Brad_Gray_Planet_Ark_Environmental_FoundationGuest: Brad Gray
Presenter: Henry Acosta
Guest Bio: Brad Gray trained and worked as a history and geography teacher before moving into the health education sector for 14 years. With a strong passion for human environments, Brad started with Planet Ark in 2007 as Recycling Programs Manager before taking up the role of Head of Campaigns in 2010. Brad works with every team in the organisation to create positive and action-based programs designed to engage Australians with the environment.

Segment overview: The giving and receiving of gifts during the Christmas season generates recyclable material that most people have minimal disposal knowledge. Gifts like computers, printers, mobile phones, clothes, furniture, and glasses are often discarded. The 12 Do’s of Christmas Campaign aims to educate and encourage people to reconsider their purchasing behaviour to help minimise waste during this season.

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