Get Ready to BE Ready
by Brent Hearn • If you stay ready / You ain’t got to get ready- From “If U Stay Ready” by Suga Free Assuming you’ve seen the title of today’s article, you may be asking yourself, “What in the world does a 1997 rap lyric have to do with...
Falling for Safety
by Brent Hearn • There’s a decent chance you’ve read an article or two about how to avoid falling. Heck, we’ve mentioned it ourselves. (Read Don’t Slip Up: Keep Your Footing in Winter Weather here.) But if you’ve ever been unfortunate enough to suffer...
Baby Steps for Lasting Change
by Brent Hearn • Lee, a work acquaintance you’d see once a year at a conference, used to be woefully out of shape. He’d be winded after the short walk from session to session at the convention center, and by the end of the day, he was running on...
Back Popping – The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
by Brent Hearn • Perhaps you’re familiar with one of the following scenarios… It’s mid-afternoon, and you’re hard at work at your desk. You’ve been in the flow, and when you finally come up for air, you realize you’ve been hunched over for...
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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.