Watch Your Back…At Play!
by Brent Hearn • For those of you who have read our articles Watch Your Back…at Work and Watch Your Back…at Home and have wondered if we’d draw from that well again, wonder no longer. Welcome to the third installment of our “Watch Your Back” series!...
Now Hear This
by Brent Hearn • Our sense of hearing can bring pleasure, pain, annoyance, or safety. From the soaring melodies of an orchestral piece to the blaring siren of a house alarm, from a phone notification during a play to the screech of tires in a parking...
Watch Your Back…at Home
by Brent Hearn • There’s no getting around it. There are a zillion ways to injure your back. Are you an athlete? Plenty of ways to hurt your back. How about just moderately active? Everyday life affords you an abundance of opportunities to tweak the...
The Upside of (Good) Home Remedies
by Brent Hearn • Many of us grew up hearing our elders offering up medical advice for various ailments: Sore throat? Drink some tea with honey! Hiccups? Swallow a spoonful of sugar! Burn your hand? Put some butter on it! Leave it to Grandma to think...
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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.