I know you read the title. Don?t get me wrong here; almost any doctor that I?ve come in contact with has an enormous advantage over me in IQ. We?re talking leaps and bounds here. But yet, there is some silliness that gets picked up in this industry when it comes to the billing department. The five blatant scenarios listed are from real life experiences and not made up to just be posted on the website. Here Goes:

Bow Before My Specialty:

This is seen with just about all specialists. Each specialist truly and honestly believes that their medical specialty is harder to bill for than others.

Doctors have extremely busy lives and one of their biggest challenges is finding some balance between the all encompassing demands of the medical work and finding time for other parts of life including their own needs as well as those of their partner, family, friends and community.

Your patients medical chart: it's hard to access, impossible to read -- and full of information that could make your patient healthier if they just knew how to use it. Thomas Goetz looks at medical data, making a bold call to redesign it and get more insight from it.

Transcript

I'm going to be talking to you about how we can tap a really underutilized resource in health care, which is the patient, or -- as I like to use the scientific term -- people. Because we are all patients, we are all people. Even doctors are patients at some point. So I want to talk about that as an opportunity that we really have failed to engage with very well in this country and, in fact, worldwide. If you want to get at the big part -- I mean from a public health level, where my training is -- you're looking at behavioral issues, your looking at things where people are actually given information, and they're not following through with it. It's a problem that manifests itself in diabetes, obesity, many forms of heart disease, even some forms of cancer -- when you think of smoking. Those are all behaviors where people know what they're supposed to do. They know what they're supposed to be doing, but they're not doing it.