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4 Steps to Telehealth Success in Rural American Hospitals
Expanding your services to include telehealth may seem like a challenging endeavor, but this new provision and management of medical care provides a sound solution to improving the rural communities’ access to quality healthcare. Using telehealth in rural areas can help reduce the difficulties patients usually encounter, such as distance, travel time, and transportation issues. […]
Charles Colligan Joins Coronis Health
Coronis Health is welcoming Charles Colligan to their expert team to oversee the financial and operational performance of the company as the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer, supporting Coronis Health’s continued success in providing niche clients with the best-of-the-best solutions in revenue cycle management. Charles “Charlie” Colligan brings 30 years of experience in developing and […]
Coronis Health Implementing New Mandatory Medicare ABN
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have revised the Advanced Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN) form and have announced that it will delay the regulation requiring physicians to use the new version of the form (Form CMS-R-131). It was previously reported that CMS would require the use of the new form starting Aug. […]
The top 10 highest physician salaries by specialty
Specialists continue to draw bigger paychecks than primary care physicians, with orthopedic salaries at the top of the list, according to a new survey. Orthopedic doctors had the highest salary among 25 types of physicians, according to a MedPage Today salary survey. The online survey received more than 20,000 responses, including 7,753 with salary information used in […]
Data-driven marketing: using data analytics to make smart decisions
Data is the new currency, and it’s disrupting virtually every industry. As people become more connected through technology and social media, more data points are available for collection. In fact, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every 24 hours. That’s 2,500,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data, to be precise! Over 90% of data that exists has been generated […]
A fond farewell to Jeanne Chamberlin as she begins her next adventure – retirement
She’s one of the smartest people I have ever met. I would even argue that she might be an even bigger champion of the independent physician than I am. Jeanne Chamberlin accidentally walked into my professional life at a dry cleaners in Chapel Hill … still the best errand I’ve run to date. Jeanne joined […]
Lessons I learned from 35 years in healthcare
When I graduated from Duke with a Master’s Degree in Public Policy, one of my professors advised me that the best way to ensure a challenging and rewarding career was to work in a policy area that was always changing. It appears I chose well, as it’s hard to think of another industry that changes […]
To empower an underserved population, the pharmacy meets Patients at the Barbershop
Access to wellness is far from equal, varying based on where you live, what you earn, and the color of your skin. One population that modern healthcare has been failing is black men, who have an elevated risk of developing high blood pressure, which can cause strokes and heart attacks. Roughly half of Americans with high […]
A much-deserved retirement for Cameron M. Cox, Jr.
January 1, 2018, was a bittersweet day – a sad day for me professionally but a fantastically happy day personally. This date marked the official retirement of my father and a great mentor, Cameron Cox, Jr. As a kid, I remember my dad leaving the house before sunrise. Cam Jr. has always been an incredibly […]
MSOC sponsors Durham Rescue Mission in remembrance of Emily Bearden
Today we remember our dear friend and coworker, Emily Bearden, as we give back to the Durham Rescue Mission. Emily was a former employee at MSOC Health, and it’s the 10th anniversary since she passed in 2007. MSOC sponsored both the men’s and women’s divisions of the Durham Rescue Mission. November 15 was her birthday, […]