MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'accounting'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:08:27 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4975846&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FI7c-rTbplTw%2F By Chris EdwardsIn the Washington Post Friday, Ezra Klein partly confirmed what I fear the Republican strategy is for the debt-limit bill—get to the $2 trillion in cuts promised through accounting gimmicks. As I have also noted, Klein says that there is about $1 trillion in budget “savings” ($1.4 trillion with interest) to be found simply in the inflated Congressional Budget Office baseline for Iraq and Afghanistan. Klein says, “I’m told that a big chunk of these savings were included in the debt-ceiling deal” that Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Sen. Jon Kyl (D-AZ) are negotiating with the Democrats. Republican leaders have promised that spending cuts in the debt-limit deal must be at least as large as the debt-limit increase, which means $2 trillion if the debt-limit is extended ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4975846 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:52:43 +0100 4975846 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4883723&cid=t_101108_114_f&fid=34646&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gpo.gov%2Ffdsys%2Fpkg%2FFR-2011-05-31%2Fpdf%2F2011-13297.pdf Today's Federal Register includes the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) modifying the HIPAA Privacy Rule's Accounting of Disclosure requirements for protected health information. OCR was required to make these modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to implement the requirements under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) section of the ARRA. HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, Office for Civil Rights, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (76 FR 31426, May 31, 2011)The regulations greatly expand the responsibility for health care covered entities and business associates to document and track the use and disclosure of health information he... Health Care Law Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4883723 Tue, 31 May 2011 15:57:44 +0100 4883723 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4797825&cid=t_101108_112_f&fid=34971&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.drmalpani.com%2F2011%2F05%2Fhow-emr-can-help-doctors-to-become-more.html Managing time is a major issue for all professionals in today’s fast paced world. This is even more so for many doctors, especially those who work at multiple locations: Clinics, Hospitals and Medical centers. Workshops on effective time management are regularly organized at different financial and IT firms to help hard working professionals.Physicians have a slightly bigger problem. Their schedules are majorly dependent on set appointments with patients. While they do have other areas of concern, the majority of their daily schedules are built around patient appointments. What complicates this for a consulting doctor is that every day he may have different visiting hours at different locations. This makes Time management even more crucial for Physicians. (Source: The Patient's Doctor) The Patient's Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4797825 Sun, 08 May 2011 04:47:00 +0100 4797825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636677&cid=t_101108_180_f&fid=38609&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidSeah-BetterLivingThroughNewMedia%2F%7E3%2Fng7_ZAN-Nno%2F Business accounting has been on my mind a lot. I want to create a new product in the form of a Fountain Pen Friendly Notebook, but this will require careful management of my cash flow. The problem: I hate accounting, and this is just the tip of the wobbly tower of finance-related concerns that I have moving forward. In this post, I think aloud about the nature of the problem, and what I might do about it. I’m a newbie businessperson, and with this comes the desire for a better way to manage money-related chores. I do the absolute minimum to keep things from going pear-shaped in my accounts, which means I am scraping by and not managing my money very well. This year, I finally talked to a bookkeeper that was recommended to me by another artist-businessperson in the area, and I&#821... David Seah - Design, Development, Inspiration, Empowerment blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636677 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:05:41 +0100 4636677 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3780343&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fdp797EOAtc4%2F By Neal McCluskeyFor supporters of Title IX, it’s time to put down the pom-poms. From the start, Title IX has been an unnecessary and destructive imposition of government and bureaucracy into college sports, substituting regulation and litigation for the free choices of women and men. But yesterday’s ruling that competitive cheerleading isn’t a sport — a decision worth reading just for its brilliant illustration of the torturous athlete-accounting and word-parsing Title IX demands – highlights how truly absurd it has become. For one thing, tell the women (and men) in competitive cheer that it isn’t a sport – most would probably beg to differ. Much more important, when we have judges ruling what does or does not constitute a sport we have clearly given up way... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3780343 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:06:49 +0100 3780343 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3529887&cid=t_101108_114_f&fid=34646&url=http%3A%2F%2Fedocket.access.gpo.gov%2F2010%2Fpdf%2F2010-10054.pdf Today the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Department of Health and Human Services issued a Request for Information titled HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures Under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (75 Fed Reg 23214 May 3, 2010). More information at the OCR website. The Request for Information by OCR seeks comments from health consumers and health care providers/organizations. OCR seeks information on the following areas: Understanding the interests of individuals (health consumers) with respect to learning of such disclosures; and The administrative burden on covered entities (health care providers/organizations) and business associates of accounting for such disclosures. The Request for Information states that Section 13405(c) of the Health... Health Care Law Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3529887 Tue, 04 May 2010 14:05:24 +0100 3529887 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3504893&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FEpY0J8RzU2o%2F By Chris EdwardsMost people know about the individual mandate in the new health care bill, but the bill contained another mandate that could be far more costly. A few wording changes to the tax code’s section 6041 regarding 1099 reporting were slipped into the 2000-page health legislation. The changes will force millions of businesses to issue hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of additional IRS Form 1099s and related W-2s every year. It appears to be a costly, anti-business nightmare. Under current law, businesses are required to issue 1099s in a limited set of situations, such as when paying outside consultants. The health care bill includes a vast expansion in this information reporting requirement in an attempt to raise revenue for an increasingly rapacious Congress. In a recent... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3504893 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:57:54 +0100 3504893 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3437687&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fb8CYp1Pk3xA%2F By David BoazGlenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee but better known as Instapundit, writes in the Washington Examiner that the controversy over big corporations’ reporting the impact of the new health care legislation on their tax bills illustrates the “Knowledge Problem” identified by Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek in “The Use of Knowledge in Society” and other writings. Hayek pointed out that the information needed to run an economy doesn’t exist in any one database or agency. It is scattered among millions of people and made available to others by means of the price system. Planning and regulation do away with the information embodied in prices and try to improve on market outcomes by making use of far less information. Reynolds wr... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3437687 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:21:52 +0100 3437687 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3424836&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FqLrVGKVqc9Y%2F By Tad DeHavenThe Federal Housing Administration is heading toward a taxpayer bailout, yet the president’s latest mortgage modification plan would further increase the agency’s exposure to risky mortgages. Mark Calabria calls it a “Backdoor Bank Bailout.” The administration’s plan would encourage borrowers who owe more than their house is worth to refinance into FHA-insured mortgages. Therefore, the risk of a future foreclosure on these mortgages would fall to the government and taxpayers instead of private lenders. A recent study from economists at New York University found that the FHA is underestimating its risk exposure. One of the problems is that the FHA isn’t properly accounting for the risk to underwater FHA mortgages that have been refinanced into new FHA mortgages. So... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3424836 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:00:51 +0100 3424836 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3071142&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FMXKV9raIBsY%2F By Chris Moody Well, so much for the peace presidency… Patrick Michaels on Copenhagen: “Expect a lot of heat, not much light, and a punt right into our next election.” Why the Supreme Court should strike down the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board: “Imagine a government agency with the authority to create and enforce laws, prosecute and adjudicate violations, and impose criminal penalties. Then throw in the power to levy taxes to pay for all the above. And for good measure, make the agency independent of political oversight.” Discussing Hayek over at Cato Unbound: Four problems with spontaneous order. Podcast: “Obama’s Patriot Act Duplicity.” (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3071142 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:26:33 +0100 3071142 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3067016&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FxnBC6u3J_3c%2F By Ilya ShapiroThis morning at the Supreme Court, the federal government argued for the continued existence of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB, pronounced peek-a-boo) — and by extension the nefarious financial regulatory scheme known as Sarbanes-Oxley.  Cato filed a brief supporting a free market advocacy group and an accounting firm, who sued PCAOB for violating both the Appointments Clause and general constitutional separation-of-powers principles. Passed with scant deliberation in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 established PCAOB to oversee the accounting practices of the nation’s public companies.  As my piece with Cato legal associate Travis Cushman details today, PCAOB enjoys the rare authority to mak... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3067016 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:36:24 +0100 3067016 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2992862&cid=t_101108_151_f&fid=36896&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSuboxoneTalkZone%2F%7E3%2FBrBugBAJ014%2F I am in need of some help from the people listed in the title– so if you have connections, help me out.  I am adding this sentence to the front of this post after rambling too long, as I’m afraid that the person I need won’t get to the important part!  If you work in the areas I mentioned or have connections to someone in those areas, please read on. I’ve talked about some of the goals I have had for this site over the past couple years…  one of my ‘personal issues’ is that like most addicts, I like to take things on by myself and solve problems by myself.  I remember, in fact, my first time in treatment in 1993– an outpatient, 21-session group therapy program– when one of my assignments was to ask another person for help at least o... Suboxone Talk Zone blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2992862 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:03:45 +0100 2992862 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2908693&cid=t_101108_112_f&fid=34971&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoctorandpatient.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fhow-plus91-software-helps-doctors-to.html While doctors love earning money, they hate keeping accounts ; and interactions with accountants are high on a doctor’s “hate to do” list. A doctor who owns his own clinic has the thankless job of having to maintain accounts. Most doctors have varied methods of maintaining financial records, but all of them get the jitters when it comes to filing their income tax returns. So much paper work and so much time wasted ! Isn’t there a simpler way of managing your accounts? Well technology and software run banks, so why not your clinic as well ?This is a guest post from Aditya Patkar, Marketing Director of Plus91, as to how software can help doctors to manage their accounts more efficiently !Plus91 has integrated its Practice Management EMR solution with a simple and effective accounts m... The Patient's Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2908693 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:48:00 +0100 2908693 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2876141&cid=t_101108_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F10%2F02%2Farra-accounting-for-disclosures%2F I’ve been reading some things about ARRA’s changes to HIPAA. I’ve heard a number of times the phrase that “ARRA has now given teeth to HIPAA.” I’ve also heard grumblings about a change in the HIPAA requirement that an EMR account for disclosures. I’ve been trying to get a number of experts on HIPAA to do a guest post on these various changes with no success, but I’ll keep trying. However, I recently heard that the accounting for disclosures is even more stringent than I had thought about before. From what I’ve heard, the law will now require that you are storing and able to report on the disclosure of a patients health information to both internal and external sources. The external sources is something that we’ve done forever and ... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2876141 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:08:59 +0100 2876141 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2803895&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FtlWqSujwMDA%2F Was it just me, or did there seem to be a whole lot of applause during Obama’s Wall Street speech?  Remember this was a room full of Wall Street executives.  The President even started by thanking the Wall Street execs for their “warm welcome.” While of course, there was the obligatory slap on the wrist, that “we will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked excess,” but there was no mention that the bailouts were a thing of the past.  Indeed, there is nothing in Obama’s financial plan that would prevent future bailouts, which is why I believe there was such applause.  The message to the Goldman’s of the world, was, you better behave, but even if you don’t, you, and your debtholders will be bailed out. The president also... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2803895 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:21:46 +0100 2803895 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2737700&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FZptJwMYfVis%2F My post yesterday on federal worker pay generated a large and aggressive response from federal workers, both in my inbox and on websites such as Fedsmith.com. (See also Federal Times and Govexec). Here are four points raised in criticism: First, people accuse me of producing distorted data somehow. Actually, it’s essentially just raw Bureau of Economic Analysis data, but the data is usually overlooked by the media because I don’t think the BEA puts out a press release on it. Anyway, the average wage data is from BEA Table 6.6D. The average compensation data is simply total compensation (Table 6.2D) divided by the number of workers (Table 6.5D). Second, people argue that reporting overall averages for wages and compensation is somehow illegitimate. People email me co... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2737700 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:19:26 +0100 2737700 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2670774&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FrDOfY7S-O3M%2F Passed with scant deliberation amid a stock market panic, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 vastly expanded the federal government’s role in regulating corporate governance and the accounting industry. As part of that effort, Congress created a new agency to “audit the auditors.” Known as the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the agency has broad rulemaking and enforcement powers to set accounting standards, investigate accounting firms, punish criminal violations, and make whatever rules “may be necessary or appropriate in the public interest or for the protection of investors.” Remarkably, the PCAOB (pronounced “peek-a-boo”) also has the power to fund its own budget by levying taxes on publicly traded companies. Despite giving the PCAOB all this po... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2670774 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:48:05 +0100 2670774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469489&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fbalancing-nhs-budget.html …the NHS in England is set to run up a substantial surplus, for the second year running. Public health campaigners say it represents a fantastic opportunity for the health service to invest in innovative services to improve health.November 2008-the NHS has returned to financial balance, delivering a surplus of £510 million in 2006/07, and is on course to achieve a surplus in 2007/08.'June 2008All very encouraging you may think but then, suddenly:A report by NHS managers warns the health service will face the worst and most severe and sustained financial shortfall in its history after 2011. How should the NHS be funded?

The BBC has learned the NHS in England is facing a real-terms reduction of between £8 and 10bn in its budget over the three years after 2011.June 2009What is going ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469489 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:41:00 +0100 2469489 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416800&cid=t_101108_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsbfFEJFt4eo%2F Today the Supreme Court agreed to review a case brought by our friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute that challenges the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB, pronounced “peek-a-boo”).  The constitutional problem with the PCAOB — there are many policy problems — is that its officers are appointed in an unconstitutional manner.  Under the Appointments Clause of Article II, section 2, the president has the exclusive power to appoint and remove government officials.  The members of the PCAOB – which enforces the massive regulatory scheme Sarbanes-Oxley imposes on public companies – are appointed by the SEC, however, which then has limited supervisory/removal power.  While this structural defect may se... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416800 Mon, 18 May 2009 17:22:18 +0100 2416800 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2052587&cid=t_101108_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Fkeith-drayer%2Fdental-finances-receivables-at-risk%2F Does your practice extend open credits to your patients?   This is an important question as veteran dental practice owners know that their practice’s fiscal health, profitability and success requires BALANCING a prudent patient-financing policy. BALANCE allows the flexibility to accommodate your patients, and is also needs to be firm enough to avoid cash flow/collection problems that may have material consequences for both the doctors and staff.  Even a temporary cash flow problem is stressful for a practice owner, creating the potential for uncertainty in making the payroll.     What is a dental practice’s uncollectible percentage?  While this number will vary substantially (many factors ranging from service mix, use of practice management software, aggressive or lax pa... dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2052587 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:02:13 +0100 2052587 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1692381&cid=t_101108_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F359766513%2F We all know litigation costs money. But right now, companies are required to estimate the cost of a lawsuit only when it is likely a loss is in the offing. But the Financial Accounting Standards Board wants, instead, to require companies to account for the potential cost of all ongoing litigation - period. And you can imagine the response from your friendly neighborhood general counsel - who knows? So why is FASB proposing additional projections? “Investors and other users of financial information have expressed concerns that disclosures about loss contingencies under the existing guidance in FASB Statement No. 5, Accounting for Contingencies, do not provide adequate information to assist users of financial statements in assessing the likelihood, timing, and amount of future cash flo... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1692381 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:12:09 +0100 1692381 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=472287&cid=t_101108_109_f&fid=34795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsoloshrink.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F01%2Fpeople-may-or-may-not-know-by-this-time.html People may or may not know by this time that Microsoft is offering, free of charge and no strings attached, a download or CD of Microsoft Office Accounting Express either here or here. Ordering the free CD is probably better as this is a 208MB download and arrives almost as quickly by mail as it would take on dial-up. What you may not know is that Microsoft Office Live is offering a free basic website with free registered domain name, multiple email accounts, and a site builder with some very professional templates to advertise your practice or sell items. Of course, they want you to be successful so that you buy a more complex site and other services. Overall, this is an excellent product and a good manner in which to market it.Peace, DocCopyright © 2007, Thomas A. Blood, Ph.D. (Source: ... Solo Shrink blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=472287 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:34:00 +0100 472287