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Blue Cross - Blue Shield Administrative Survey

Cost Trends Demonstrate a Decline in 2007
By Douglas B. Sherlock; CFA
PRESS RELEASE REPORT
Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
The per-member [pm] administrative cost growth for BC/BS declined from 6.1% in 2006, to 4.3% in 2007. Adjusted to eliminate the effect of a shift in product mix, administrative expense growth declined from 6.5% in 2006 to 2.5% in 2007. Administrative expenses [...]

Events-Planner: August 2008

AUGUST 2008
Staff Writers
“Keeping track of important health economics and financial industry meetings, conferences and summits”
August 1: Print Edition Healthcare Journalism: If you would like to “step-up-your-game” and be considered as a peer-reviewed contributor to the third edition of: The Business of Medical Practice [Advanced Profit Maximizing Techniques for Savvy Doctors]; just contact Ann at: MarcinkoAdvisors@msn.com  There are [...]

Events-Planner: July 2008

JULY 2008
Staff Writers
“Keeping track of important health economics and financial industry meetings, conferences and summits”.  
July 10-11: Health Reform & the 2008 Elections: What’s Ahead for Health Care Access, Delivery and Financing? Washington Court Hotel, Capitol Hill; Washington, DC | Phone: 800-521-4323
July 14: Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans | Institute for International Research, Washington, DC.
July 15-17: 3rd [...]

Alphabet Soup: Financial Designations & Certificates

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July 2008:
AUTHORS: Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™ and Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA, CMP™
POSITION: Publisher-in-Chief, and Managing Editor of the Executive-Post, respectively.
TOPIC: Financial Designations and Certifications [Alphabet Soup of Industry Obfuscation and Self-Promotion, or Real Gravitas – You Decide?]
EXCERPT: “Until recently, most financial advisors were regulated by the NASD, the National Association of Securities [...]

AEM Report on Drug History Errors

Annals of Emergency Medicine Drug-Report
Staff Writers 
Medication histories for trauma patients were inaccurate for a rural population due to communication lapses, according to a new study published on June 9 2008, by the Annals of Emergency Medicine [AEM].
The Report
Researchers studied 234 trauma patients in a rural setting, the majority of whom were moderately injured. Medication lists [...]

Evolutionary Shifts in the Primacy of Medical Ethical Principles

Philosophic Ruminations and Personal Interviews
By Render S. Davis; MHA, CHE
Crawford Long Hospital at Emory University
Atlanta Georgia USA
For more than 2000 years, the principle of beneficence, the profession’s obligation to be of service to others, was the foundation of the practice of medicine.
In taking the Hippocratic Oath, physicians swore that they would “perform their art [...]

Events-Planner: June 2008

JUNE 2008
Staff Writers
“Keeping track of important health economics and financial industry meetings, conferences and summits”
June 1-3: Compliance Regulatory Affairs Conference: NAVA, Washington, DC
2-5: College for Advanced Management of Health Benefits Training, Orlando, Fla
4-6: National Medicaid Congress, Washington, DC
4-6: REITWEEK and NAREIT Conference, New York, NY
4-6: Pershing Financial Products and Services Conference, Hollywood, Fla
6-10: American Diabetes Association [...]

Alternative Lifestyles and Physician-Partners

A Top-Ten Checklist
Staff Writers
The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association [GLMA] represents the interests of more than 70,000 gay, lesbian or transgender [GLBT] physicians and medical students. GLMA was founded in 1981 as a network to combat homophobia within the medical profession www.Gay.com
And, gay rights advocates had reason to celebrate on both coasts recently, [...]

Dental Economics Management Report

EXCLUSIVE MARCH SPECIAL REPORT!
Released February 29th, 2008

A very special report on dentists - their professional practice career and economic life cycle - by a leading national dental management corporate executive.
AUTHOR: Thomas A. Knox MBA was senior vice-president for provider partnerships at Delta Dental Plan of Minnesota, which owns a major interest in a privately held dental [...]

Dental Economics Business Report

EXCLUSIVE MARCH SPECIAL REPORT!
Released February 29th, 2008

A very special report on dentists - their professional practice career and economic life cycle - by a leading national dental management corporate executive.
AUTHOR: Thomas A. Knox MBA was senior vice-president for provider partnerships at Delta Dental Plan of Minnesota, which owns a major interest in a privately held dental [...]

Addictive Investing Personality of Medical Professionals

Exclusive Special Report for the Executive Post 
“The Addictive Investing Personality of Medical Professionals and Related Compulsions”
 
An exclusive white-paper report on medical professionals and their investing compulsions by one of the nation’s leading psychologists, gambling addiction and trauma specialists. 
AUTHOR: Eugene Schmuckler; PhD, MBA, CTS [Behavioral Psychologist] 
POSITION: Academic Dean: www.CertifiedMedicalPlanner.com an online certification program with fiduciary trademark logo [...]