April 2019 Digital Edition
April 17, 20191 min
Post Views: 2,250
Monitoring financial performance for your physician medical practice’s financial success
April 17, 201913 min
By Reed Tinsley, CPA, CVA, CFP, CHBC It’s tempting to put the business operations of small private medical practices on the back burner to concentrate on patient care. While patient care should always be the first priority of medical staff, you can’t ignore key performance indicators that tell you how your practice is performing comparably financially. Knowing how to measure your practice among your peers is only one component in running a successful practice. However,...
Dying is not an emergency
April 17, 201913 min
BY Victor S. Sierpina, MD, ABFM, ABIHM, Director, Medical Student Education Program, WD and Laura Nell Nicholson Family Professor of Integrative Medicine, Professor, Family Medicine University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor When your heart stops or you are in a crash, be grateful for the skilled attention of paramedics, firemen, emergency room staff, trauma surgeons, and intensive care doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists. However, oftentimes, death and dying come more slowly. The Good Death: The New...
A commonsense proposal to help more Texans in a disaster
April 17, 201910 min
Special to Medical Journal – Houston By TED SHAW, President/CEO, Texas Hospital Association When Hurricane Harvey made landfall between Port Aransas and Port O’Connor in late August 2017, it was the first Category 4 hurricane to hit the U.S. in 13 years. Over the course of a week, the storm dumped more than 60 inches of rain and forged a path of destruction from Rockport, Texas to Cameron, Louisiana. Twenty hospitals were forced to close...
Department of Labor releases new proposed overtime rule
April 17, 201913 min
By A. Kevin Troutman, Fisher Phillips After considerable controversy and years of waiting, the U.S. Department of Labor has finally released its revised proposed “overtime rule,” resolving some concerns and leaving other questions open. If adopted, the revised rule would set the minimum salary threshold for so-called white-collar exemptions at $679 per week, annualizing to $35,308 per year. Though substantially higher than the current $455 minimum weekly salary required to sustain an overtime exemption, the...
CMS issues new protocol for identifying Immediate Jeopardy
April 17, 201914 min
By Allison Shelton and Beth Anne Jackson, Brown & Fortunato, P.C. On March 5, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued new guidance relating to “Immediate Jeopardy” (IJ) determinations. The instructions for such determinations that had been in place since 2004 in Appendix Q of the State Operations Manual were overhauled by CMS. Appendix Q guides surveyors in the determination of IJ situations, which is the most serious citation that may be...
Top 10 Hospitals by Readmission Rates
April 17, 20194 min
situs toto situs toto situs togel situs toto slot gacor situs togel link slot situs togel situs toto situs toto togel online situs toto situs togel situs toto situs toto situs togel toto slot situs toto situs toto Post Views: 2,503
Mouton named new UTMB provost and dean of medicine
April 16, 20198 min
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston announced that Dr. Charles Mouton, currently the acting dean of the UTMB School of Medicine, has been appointed executive vice president and provost, and dean of the School of Medicine. Mouton was selected following a 10-month national search. Dr. David L. Callender, president of UTMB, said Mouton is an “experienced and collaborative physician, scientist, educator and leader.” “He has a vision for how UTMB can break new ground in...
Houston Methodist Cancer Center at Clear Lake welcomes radiation oncologist
April 16, 20196 min
Houston Methodist Cancer Center at Clear Lake is pleased to welcome Dr. Twisha Verma, radiation oncologist. Dr. Verma joins a highly respected team of specialized doctor s who deliver individualized, compassionate care through an integrated, team approach that addresses each patient’s unique needs. Dr. Verma’s specialties include intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), high-dose rate brachytherapy (HDR), image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), body and intracranial radiosurgery, and partial breast radiation. She has been practicing in the Austin area. Dr. Verma attended medical school...
Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital unveils new TrueBeam linear accelerator for state-of-the-art cancer treatment
April 16, 20199 min
Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital has installed a new radiation therapy system, which integrates imaging, beam delivery, and motion management to give physicians unmatched control of radiation therapy. “This is a major step forward in cancer treatment,” said Twisha Verma, M.D., radiation oncologist at Houston Methodist Cancer Center at Clear Lake. “The new system allows us to limit side effects and reduce the impact on surrounding tissue while improving the delivery of radiation. It actually...