PQRS Measures: Why Bother?
Downstream Consequences of Aging is a bi-monthly series written by guest columnist Barbara Weinstein, PhD. The Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) is a program through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) designed to improve the quality of care to Medicare Part B beneficiaries by tracking practice patterns of health care practitioners. …
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A Weed by Any Name: Duplicate Content, Scraping, Plagiarism
HHTM editors have been spending their time uneconomically of late, weeding out problems (and learning new words) that we didn’t even know existed back in 2011 when HHTM began. Economics is defined as the allocation of scarce resources–a familiar concept to any audiologist who runs a practice; ditto for any editor responsible for gathering original…
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Steps for Selling Successful Hearing Aid Practices
Grant Smith returns to finish his post series on selling practices. Last post was focused on the psychological considerations that precede all sales, where owners must recognize and weigh the opportunity cost of the choice to sell. Without addressing those considerations early and thoroughly, owners run the real and literal risk of dying to sell,…
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Selling Hearing Aid Practices — The Psychological View
Grant Smith is blogging today at Hearing Economics. Previously, he blogged in Hearing Views on the importance of hearing professionals differentiating themselves to today’s hearing aid consumer. Grant has worn many hats in the hearing aid industry, one being to broker hearing aid sales and acquisitions. It is in that role that he writes…
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Does ACO Spell Audiology?
Tom J. Northey is this week’s guest contributor. In July, Hearing Economics did a multi-part series going back in time to 2000, when Mr. Northey wrote a seminal article forecasting our profession’s future choices and coining that popular phrase “Audiology Economics.” Lucky for Hearing Economics, the series caught Mr. Northey’s attention. Though he left the field of…
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