Healthcare Reform Affects Medicare Patients and the Under 65 Set Differently
How to Answer Questions from Your Patients
If you’re a physician, chances are you have already fielded a bevy of questions from patients about healthcare reform. Rest assured, the questions will keep coming. Experts say that doctors need to be up to speed, and fast, about how reform will affect their patients’ healthcare and their insurance options in the future.
SHARON H. FITZGERALD |
HEALTHCARE LEADER: Rodney Holmes
Executive Director, MidSouth eHealth Alliance
Commuting weekly from his Birmingham home for nearly four years—a distance of more than 200 miles—in order to shepherd a worthy project reflects commitment with a capital “C.” Rodney Holmes has leveraged his persistent passion for information technology into a master’s degree project, a career, and a Memphis-based alliance of healthcare providers that is gaining increasing respect and recognition.
JUDY OTTO |
Medical Pioneer Jackson Coleman
HEI Recognizes Eye Ultrasound Developer for Worldwide Contribution
When Barrett Haik, MD, left his native New Orleans in 1977 to complete ophthalmology training in New York City, D. Jackson Coleman, MD, took him under his wing.
LYNNE JETER |
MEDICAL ECONOMICS: Characteristics of Top-earning Physicians
Most physicians want to know what top- earning physicians have in common. Last year, the Medical Group Management Association published a report that discussed themes and patterns of the top-earning physicians. To identify the physicians who earn the most, the MGMA looked at the patterns of the upper third (66th percentile) in identifying the top earners.
BILL APPLING |
Medical Mission Workers Save Lives (and Souls)
Ken Nippert believes in living his faith. As the area director of Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA), Nippert conducts two mission trips a year, bringing healthcare services — and the message of Christian discipleship — to people in third-world countries.
JANE SCHNEIDER |
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