Spring Cleaning for Your Mental Health
by Brent Hearn • March is a time of transition. Spring kicks off in the latter half of the month, but depending on where you live, that may be news to the thermometer. (It can be hard to even utter the word spring unironically if you’re having to...
Take a Stand for Your Health
by Brent Hearn • Have you ever stopped to consider how many of your waking hours are spent sitting? For far too many of us—even those of us who consider ourselves fairly active—that number can be surprising. Think about it. If you work in an office,...
Two Paws Up: How Pets Can Improve Your Life
by Brent Hearn • For many, pet ownership is more than a checkbox in a dating app; it’s an important aspect of their personality. There are cat people and there are dog people. There are “exotic animal” people and “anything with fur, feathers, or...
Don’t Slip Up: Keep Your Footing in Winter Weather
by Brent Hearn • Unless you live in one of the few areas of the country that’s perpetually sunny and warm—and we just love that for you; we’re not envious at all—there’s a decent chance it’ll be cold outside today. And if not, it probably was fairly...
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Why is the Discount Challenge prize amount $15,024? Because that is the average “per-occurrence” fine for Medicare inducements. That’s not $15,024 per patient, that’s not per provider, that’s PER VISIT. Stinks, doesn’t it? To us, the prize amount is worth the investment if we can help our profession better understand proper discounting.