Cold Iron Truth
Cold Iron Truth
The hospital outpatient facility may soon lose its secret sauce
The CMS has proposed eliminating the site-of-service differential payments for hospital outpatient services.
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Town and gown – the virtuous circle
There should be a virtuous circle between dermatologists in their community and their academic medical center.
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Patients who want to make you retire, and how to cope
There are times, as a physician and healer, you must recognize that patient criticism cannot be taken personally.
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Strategic planning for physicians
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Time for single payer? ColdironCare
Here is my plan for single-payer health care. Call it ColdironCare.
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Lemons into lemonade: The 2019 Medicare physician fee schedule
This year’s proposed rule was particularly disturbing because of major changes in reimbursement proposed by CMS.
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The compounding struggle continues. Write now to help your patients
Do not be naive. This is a national scope of practice issue that could determine how physicians can use medications in their offices.
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Produce and promises
Any barrier between the patient and the physician is bad, and two or three barriers makes things logarithmically worse.
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The 2019 Medicare proposed rule might just make your head explode
When sitting through interminable meetings, endless reports, and unfocused discussions, I often feel a building pressure in my head that, if it...
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Unlikely mentors
I understood I could meekly go along - or get angry. I chose the latter, and it has greatly changed my career.
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Why contribute to your political action committee?
Having a PAC gains you access and lets you be heard. In today's noisy world, it is not easy to get your congressional representative's attention...