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M.O.R.O.F. Newsletter
May 2012
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May 24th Presentation - Why your head shouldn't be in a cloud, but your Practice should be - in plain English!Meeting Date - May 24, 2012
Are you a non-techie?
Confused by all this talk about "The Cloud"?
Wouldn't it be wonderful to learn what the heck the cloud IS, how it works with HIPAA, what it can do for your practice and how it will save you money - in terms you can actually understand - not that incomprehensible tech mumbo jumbo?? Learn about Electronic Medical Records (EMR) requirements and how your practice can realize $44,000 in Medicare Incentive Payments!
Click here to read more
Meeting Time - 7:30 am till 9:00 am (doors open at 7:30 presentation begins around 8:00 am)
Meeting Location - Sam Snead's Tavern (Restaurant is opening exclusively for this meeting)
Address: 1801 W. Maitland Blvd. | Orlando, FL 32810
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Only 44 days left before Version 5010 Enforcement Discretion Period ends 
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiated an enforcement discretion period until June 30, 2012 to give the industry additional time to complete testing. CMS made this decision based on industry feedback that many organizations and their trading partners were not yet ready to finalize system upgrades for this transition.
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M.O.R.O.F. Member RECOGNIZED WITH NATIONAL AWARD
 The Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children was named top healthcare project by Floor Focus Magazine for its 3rd annual Vision Design Awards. The national award celebrates the dynamic integration of flooring with a project's overall interior architecture and design in five categories - hospitality, retail, corporate, healthcare and education.
Orlando-based Ramski & Company, Inc. received the recognition for the 7,044 square-foot renovation completed in June 2011.
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Renovation or relocation - what's on your calendar for the coming year?
 When you decide to remodel or relocate your medical practice, the process can be challenging. Just knowing where to begin can be overwhelming. Where do you start? If you choose the wrong General Contractor, you are setting yourself up for pain, frustration, time and expense. Medical Office Resources of Florida (MOROF) is a great place to start when you are building or remodeling your medical space. You are not just dealing with one company you are dealing with professionals from every aspect of medical clinic relocation, construction and remodeling services.
Part 2 of this series (March Issue)
Helping You See the Big Picture
Why you need a Realtor for your relocation.
Using a Registered (licensed) Interior Designer (RID) makes sense. |
Services
Avoid 2013 E-prescribing Penalty 
June 30, 2012, is the deadline to submit and report e-prescribing for at least 10 Medicare patients to prevent a 1.5-percent Medicare penalty in 2013. Dec. 31, 2012, is the deadline for e-prescribing for at least 25 Medicare patients to earn a 1-percent incentive on all 2012 Medicare allowable charges. Details and instructions on the Medicare e-prescribing program are available here.
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Services
Essential Fatty Acids
 Understanding dietary sources of EFAs is important too, as the body doesn't use the sources of EFAs equally easily or in the same way. Let's explore the role of EFAs in health maintenance, and how we can incorporate more of them into our diets.
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Did you know this about Social Security information?
 What happens if the Social Security information for your employee is incorrect? How do you prevent a mismatch? Where do you keep the employee Social Security information? How do you verify the Social Security information? What are my duties as an employer?
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Technology
Artificial Heart Created Can Possibly Eliminate the Need for a Transplant
Doctors at the Texas Heart Institute have successfully created a groundbreaking, remarkable artificial heart that can provide constant circulation of blood through the body, without the need of a pulse. The artificial heart, HeartMate II was created by Doctors Billy Cohn and O.H. "Bud" Frazier, circulates the blood through the body as the heart would, allowing the heart time to heal while a donor for a transplant is sought.
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Marketing
Getting Results Vs. Making Noise 
In the high-cost world of advertising, how do you know you're spending your dollars in the right place? Tracking your advertising and marketing results is incredibly important to ensure your campaign is not only branding your medical practice (making noise), but it's also driving viewers/readers to your office (getting results). Better still, if you know what's working you'll be able to really drill down and focus your campaign that much more, bringing in more patients and more dollars to your practice.
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Business Spotlight
Jim Whittten
Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company is a market leader in providing benefits solutions in one neat package: excellence in communications, enrollments, service, and personal insurance products and services that make benefits count for employers and their employees alike.
For employees whose insurance plans leave them feeling vulnerable,
Colonial Life can help restore peace of mind through personal insurance products that complete their coverage. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C, and founded in 1939, Colonial Life offers a broad line of personal insurance products including disability, accident, life, cancer, critical illness, and hospital confinement.
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Jokes of the Month
A Hot Day It was a stifling hot day and a man fainted in the middle of a busy intersection. Traffic quickly piled up in all directions, so a woman rushed to help him. When she knelt down to loosen his collar, a man emerged from the crowd, pushed her aside, and said, "It's all right honey, I've had a course in first aid." The woman stood up and watched as he took the ill man's pulse and prepared to administer artificial respiration. At this point she tapped him on the shoulder and said, "When you get to the part about calling a doctor,I'm already here."
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Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and
there is no known cure. Fortunately no cases have been reported thus far.
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Overheard in Sunnyside Clinic, as a receptionist spoke to an obviously hard-of-hearing client, 'No Mrs Jones, not the HEARSE, I'm sending the NURSE.' __________________________________________________________ One Wednesday, Murphy went to a doctor to talk about his wife. He says to the doctor, 'Doctor, I think my wife is deaf because she never hears me the first time and I always have to repeat things.' 'Well, 'the doctor replied, 'Go home and tonight stand about 15 feet from her and say something to her. If she doesn't reply move about 5 feet closer and say it again. Keep doing this so that we'll get an idea about the severity of her deafness'. Sure enough, Murphy goes home and does exactly as instructed. He starts off about 15 feet from his wife in the kitchen as she is chopping some vegetables and says, 'Betty, what's for dinner?' He hears no response. He moves about 5 feet closer and asks again. No reply. He moves 5 feet closer. Still no reply. He gets fed up and moves right behind her, about an inch away, and asks again, 'Betty, what's for dinner?' Betty says, 'That's the fourth time you asked me. It's meatloaf.'
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We hope you find our newsletter and organization useful in making your medical practice run smoothly. We would love your comments and suggestions on how we can better serve you. Our philosophy is simple...We believe in being a resource as opposed to a sales force. If you have any questions please contact us anytime. We would also encourage you to attend some of our meetings so you can truly see the benefits our organization has to offer.
Sincerely,
Chuck Wright
President, Medical Office Resources of Florida, LLP |
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