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Oct 8, 2024 | 
gwinnettforum.com | Jeff Gorke
By Jeff GorkeSUWANEE, Ga. | This is written in response to Jack Bernard’s Sept. 27, 2024 perspective, “Full Medicaid Expansion.” I appreciate Jack addressing a confounding issue that has plagued the United States since employer-sponsored healthcare began. He makes some good points. But as someone who’s worked in healthcare for more than 30 years, the remedies suggested don’t cure what ails us. I’ve not read the Medscape article so can’t speak to it with clarity.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
gwinnettforum.com | Elliott Brack |Jeff Gorke |Peter Turchin
· FIRST, WEEKS IN ADVANCE, Halloween decorations were out. Now, 2.5 months before Christmas, yes, you guessed it, the Christmas trees, decorations, ornaments, creatures, et. al., are looking at you in local stores. Makes you wonder what was in this space before the two holidays were featured.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Jeff Gorke
I thought this an interesting topic for this missive. In the scheme of the overall revenue cycle (RC), credit balances receive little attention though they are an important cog in the financial well-being of a healthcare enterprise. If not managed, credit balances can haunt clinics both financially and (potentially) legally. That is, if you don’t remedy outstanding balances, you can end up in Dutch (see Raising Arizona) with federal/state (Medicare/Medicaid) and commercial payers.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
gwinnettforum.com | Jeff Gorke
By Jeff GorkeSUWANEE, Ga. | Re: Jeff Ploussard’s recent missive apropos the “myths” about immigration, let’s start here: There is an invasion at our southern border. It’s factual and provable, irrespective of what you “name” it (semantically). Next, is it me or is anyone else tired of the loose and lazy bandying of “any-phobe” or an “any-scist” or “any-ism?” Can we stop with this; it’s intellectually vapid.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
gwinnettforum.com | Jack Bernard |Elliott Brack |Jeff Gorke
MOXIE WINNERS: Gwinnett’s Chamber recognized ten Moxie winners recently. The ladies winning awards included Tami Wilder; Laura Ballance; Renae Keitt; Maureen Kornowa; Allona Lane Cross; Leslie Clark, Amazon; and three Gas South employees, Jenny Hawkins, Michelle Pierce, and Leah Bilz. For more details, see Notable below. TODAY’S FOCUS: Project 2025 report could dictate next Trump yearsEEB PERSPECTIVE: Topics: sororities, our language and church attendance SPOTLIGHT: Law Office of J.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
gwinnettforum.com | Jeff Gorke
By Jeff Gorke SUWANEE, Ga. | Late last week I began to respond to Ashley Herndon’s tome in the July 9 GwinnettForum, “Explaining how fascism helps confuse today’s argument.”(As any reasonable person might do, I preamble by stipulating Trump is a bit of a hyperbolic loose cannon, lest the discussion get clouded.)We live in Orwellian times where words have devalued via overutilization and misuse.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Jeff Gorke
Well, there are a lot of reasons why doctors are struggling financially in private practice and why many health systems can’t generate sufficient margins. I hope my little hook/title at least gets you interested in moving forward with this didactic lesson. I’ve written a good bit about optimizing medical groups to empower clinicians to deliver (what they define as) high quality care, to improve patient access, to manage IT systems and utilize data analytics to improve care.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Jeff Gorke
Last week (July 10th) the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Proposed Rule delineating suggested changes in a variety of Medicare programs including, but not limited to, improving ambulatory specialty care, caregiver training services, “health integration services,” and extra telehealth provisions. This annual rite of passage delineates programmatic changes proposed for CY 2025.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Jeff Gorke
I’ve written several articles about tech deployment in healthcare, whether it’s electronic medical records (EMRs), data analytics, point-of-care decision making tools, or artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Each tech innovation, or maybe all tech innovations, can have a play in healthcare. Why? Because there are so many areas to improve to help clinicians deliver cost-conscious, yet quality-driven healthcare.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
gwinnettforum.com | Jeff Gorke
By Jeff GorkeSUWANEE, Ga. | It’s easy to demagogue and name call without providing cites, facts, or being accurate. That way you can’t be refuted and the echo chamber dutifully nods. If you disagree with the direction of our country, you’re a Fascist, neo-Nazi, fill-in-the-bad-name here. That said, I find Ashley Herndon’s February 16 contribution to the Gwinnett Forum (“Plantation capitalism being pushed on us again”) a vexing top-heavy litany of bloviation, supposition, and charged language.
