NSCHBC Edge Podcasts

In this episode of the NSCHBC Edge Podcast, Terry Fletcher welcomes fellow NSCHBC Member and Consultant Sean Weiss, to discuss Compliance Plans for the physician practices. With the Omnibus Vaccine Mandates, OSHA Regulations for safety, and the OIG’s requirement for Medicare and Medicaid providers having a compliance program in place to address detected offenses and taking corrective action, it is imperative that practices take a look at their corporate compliance programs and how practices respond to potential regulatory infractions. Also discussed is the difference between job descriptions vs compliance manuals and how payer contracts are now included them in their agreements.

As we are almost 2 years into the pandemic, Telehealth continues to make headlines and in today’s episode, Terry chats with Healthcare Consultant, David Zetter CHBC of Zetter Healthcare, on the 1135 Waivers still in place, Patient Consents that have expired, Audio and Video Encounters, the CARES Act, and the individual states that have either extended or waived their state mandates for Telehealth. Are you on top of the current rules? Listen in this month to find out.

In this episode of the NSCHBC Edge podcast host Terry Fletcher, and NSCHBC member and Healthcare Attorney Amanda Waesch discuss the “realities” of HIPAA and what it really means. Can anyone ask you if you’re vaccinated and do you have to reply? Also on the podcast, is the polarizing discussion of the COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates. Is this really legal to enforce? Why this virus and not others? And can this have an impact on a physician’s status as a participating provider with Medicare? Listen in this month to find out the straight answers.

In this episode of the NSCHBC Edge Podcast, Healthcare Business Consultant Chris Zaenger of Z Management Group, Ltd. joins host Terry Fletcher to discuss hiring the right people in management positions in your practice. Among those decisions is whether your spouse or relative should be on the hiring list! Also on the agenda, is salaries, remote workers, and staff members who look good on paper: but are they the best fit?

Practice start-up services can be very tedious to get a medical practice off to a solid start and firm foundation. Today, the Edge Podcast discusses startups and practice feasibility, going to work for an established private practice, or joining a Kaiser-like model or ACO to get a new physician’s feet wet. Joining Terry today, is NSCHBC member, and Doctor’s Management Healthcare Business Consultant, Valora Gurganious. Valora serves clients in all medical specialties in the intricacies in starting a medical practice, feasibility studies, contract and credentialing services and more.

It has been reported that Medical Practices with NPP/APP’s and other non-physician providers are more profitable and productive. In this episode of the NSCHBC Edge Podcast, Terry welcomes NSCHBC member and Business Consultant Adam Middleton to discuss how NPPs can increase access, hours expansion, value-based services, and profitability.

It is important for an independent practice, small medical practice or even a larger practice to think about the PROS and CONS of outsourcing their medical billing before you make the decision. Here today to discuss these questions and the answers and help you to determine what to figure into that decision, is Podcast guest, NSCHBC member and Medicus Billing Service owner Cyndi Walker CHBC along with NSCHBC member and host Terry Fletcher. We will also look at the difference between outsourcing vs. offshoring. Do you know the difference?

Terry talks with David Zetter of Zetter Healthcare today, to help determine, when you should hire a healthcare consultant to help achieve that long-term practice success.

Today we will focus on the financial challenges most medical practices have dealt with in the year of the pandemic, and What did we learn from the pandemic to pivot our Medical Practices Financial Profile to a more profitable future?

Over the last year the healthcare community has been faced with many challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Physician practices have had to navigate this and figure out how they would financially stay afloat during this time.

Today the Edge Podcast today welcomes Doctor’s Management Consultant, Grant Huang as he and Terry talk Telehealth during the PHE and what to expect post PHE.

Today’s topic focuses on employment terminations. From simple terminations to aggressive employees, this episode focuses on how to handle challenging situations: including contract employees with a non-compete clause.