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Your Medical Practice as Your Retirement Nest Egg
As you plan for retirement, you should begin by defining the destination and develop a plan to get there. The goal of this article is to provide ideas to stimulate your creative mind and inspire you to discover how your practice can help fund your retirement.
KIMBERLY ROBINSON |
Healthcare Reform and OTC Drugs
Section 9004 Poses Burden to Patients, Providers
Among the myriad new regulations posed by healthcare reform is Section 9004, which disallows the cost of over-the-counter medicines (OTC) other than insulin from being claimed as reimbursable through Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs).
LISA BEYER |
Minimizing Pain; Costs
Orlando Surgeon Gains Attention with Knee Replacement Techniques
When Apopka resident Chris Rucker, a 62-year-old health educator and author, decided she could no longer tolerate the pain and lack of mobility caused by degenerative arthritis in her knees, she started looking for an orthopedic surgeon to perform knee replacement surgery.
LISA BEYER |
PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Edgar Jimenez, MD
Director, Medical Critical Care at Orlando Regional Medical Center
Edgar Jimenez started driving when he was 12 years old, and he has been blazing trails ever since.
(More later about Jimenez’ premature onset of adolescent mobility, but first some details about a more recent venture by the director of Medical Critical Care at Orlando Regional Medical Center.)
JEFF WEBB |
UCF College of Medicine and Pasadena Villa Ink Historic Pact
Students to Focus on Unique Model—the Nation’s First—for Residential Care
In late October, the University of Central Florida (UCF) College of Medicine inked a five-year affiliation agreement with Pasadena Villa focusing on mental health practices.
LYNNE JETER |
Raising the Bar
Vipul Patel, MD, Passes 4,000 Mark for Prostate Removal Surgeries via DaVinci Robot
CELEBRATION—Institutions with multiple surgeons have performed more prostate removal surgeries via the daVinci robot, but no single surgeon has come close to the record set recently by Vipul Patel, medical director of Florida Hospital’s Global Robotics Institute in Celebration. In mid-October, the world-renowned surgeon from Central Florida hit the 4,000 mark.
LYNNE JETER |
Paging Dr. Patel
Prostate Cancer Survivor Shares Flip Side of Patient Chart
DUNEDIN—On Jan. 3, 2008, Ralph Jordan, a healthcare professional in his mid-sixties from Dunedin, became the first patient for a robotic-assisted prostatectomy at Florida Hospital’s Global Robotic Institute in Celebration.
LYNNE JETER |
Rx for the BOTTOM LINE
How to Make Every Little Bit Boost Your Bottom Line
When working in a medical facility, it doesn’t take long to figure out that some patients will try to get away with as much as possible
MINERVA DeJESUS and AURIANA REYES |
Has the Economy Killed Your Holiday Spirit?
Special from Central Florida Medical Group Management Association
Certainly everyone is relieved to be done with all of the political ads and campaigning associated with the recent elections. The election results, however, are not encouraging for most medical practices.
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Integrative Medicine Evolving Into Traditional Medicine
There is a wave of wellness sweeping across America today, as people lay claim to their own health and well-being. Gone are the days when patients humbly went to a doctor and trusted that the physician had all of the answers for questions that they dare not ask.
DR. STEVEN B. ROSS and DR. JAMES PADILLA |
Don’t Settle for the Middle
During my collegiate career I took many multiple choice tests. Generally speaking, options ranged between A and E. Five choices that sometimes all seemed to be correct.
RHEA DAVIS, CPC, RMC, RMM |
Maximize Cash Flow and Reduce Tax Payments
In today’s world, business owners need to evaluate every facet of their business in order to free up operating capital, maximize cash flow and generate max profits for the business. This should not be any different for a hardware store owner, a CPA or a physician.
ELIZABETH A. ROOT, Bedford Cost Segregation |
Orbital Blowout Fractures
The term orbital blowout fracture (BOF) has traditionally been used to describe an inferior orbital floor fracture whether or not it has actually blown outwardly from the orbital center. The orbital floor is comprised of the maxillary, palatine, and zygomatic bones.
MONT J. CARTWRIGHT, MD |
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