Topic: Business & Finance
How to maximize home infusion reimbursement
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, home infusion reimbursement rates weren’t top of mind for Varner R. Richards, Pharm.D., CEO/owner of Columbia, S.C.-based Intramed Plus. Instead, he focused on how his infusion pharmacy could help local hospitals move...
How reducing workplace stress could help prevent heart attacks
When the leader of a major organisation suffers a heart attack, it tends to make the headlines. That was the case in 2017, when the American Heart Association’s volunteer president, cardiologist John Warner, M.D., went into cardiac arrest. That was the case...
Grains of truth
The first thing you should know about Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods is that there really is a Bob. He’s 88-year-old Bob Moore, he started the company with his wife, Charlee, four decades ago, and he still oversees daily operations at the Milwaukie, Oregon,...
Practicing for her people
Robeson County, North Carolina, ranks dead last among the Tar Heel State’s 100 counties for health outcomes and health factors like smoking and obesity. Diabetes, cancer, poverty and a lack of local medical specialists make it hard for the rural county’s...
Exploring the intersection of entrepreneurship and mental health challenges at South by Southwest
Creative. Driven. Caffeine-fueled. Those are just some of the adjectives that describe entrepreneurs. But there are others that few people talk about, including depressed, anxious and...
4 revenue sources to explore for your primary care practice
Ancillary services have long been a popular way to increase revenue for physician practices. In fact, 82% of practices offer at least one ancillary service.1 Such services account for 11% of revenue for both internal and family medicine practices, according...
Selling like hotcakes
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but some mothers are pretty inventive in their own right. Take Penny Clark. Back in 1982, she sent her 8-year-old son, Joel, around the family’s Utah neighborhood selling pancake mix out of a red wagon. This...