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learning is good; teaching someone else is even better
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Jack Welch said an organization's ability to learn and apply that knowledge "is the ultimate competitive advantage," but the best organizations also foster a culture of teaching and knowledge-sharing, writes Naphtali Hoff. He offers five steps for encouraging employees to feel comfortable teaching others. SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Leadership (8/3)
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when insurers deny long-term mental care treatment, the results can be dangerous
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CBS 60 Minutes investigates the battles that parents fight for psychiatric care for their kids. And KHN looks into the practice and enforcement of a landmark federal "parity" law that requires insurance providers to cover mental illness as they would any other disease.
CBS 60 Minutes: Denied (15 minute video)
Two years and a half years ago, we were reeling from the shock of the murders of 20 first graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since then, we've learned that the killer suffered profound mental illness. His parents sought treatment but, at least once, their health insurance provider denied payment. Because of recurring tragedies and an epidemic of suicides, we've been investigating the battles that parents fight for psychiatric care. As we first reported in December, we found that the vast majority of claims are routine but the insurance industry aggressively reviews the cost of chronic cases. Long-term care is often denied by insurance company doctors who never see the patient. As a result, some seriously ill patients are discharged from hospitals over the objections of psychiatrists who warn that someone may die. (Pelley, Rey and Zill-de Granados, 8/2)
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texas woman admits to accepting kickbacks in medicare fraud scheme
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Argentina Cavazos, a doctor's assistant based in McAllen, Texas, pleaded guilty Friday to her involvement in a kickback and Medicare fraud scheme. Cavazos admitted to receiving $3,050 in kickbacks from 2010 to 2012 in exchange for Medicare patient information she gave to Martha Flores, a home health company marketer, court records say. Cavazos faces a federal prison term of up to five years and a $25,000 fine. She will be sentenced on Oct. 15. San Antonio Express-News (7/31)
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2 mich. home care firm owners found guilty in $33m medicare fraud
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Zafar Mehmood and Badar Ahmadani, both residents of Ypsilanti, Mich., were convicted Monday for their involvement in a $33 million scheme to defraud the Medicare program. Ahmadani and Mehmood, owner of four home health care facilities, were found guilty of paying kickbacks to patient recruiters and forging patient records to support fraudulent claims, trial evidence showed. Mehmood was also found guilty of obstruction of justice after trial evidence showed he stole seized documents from an HHS Office of Inspector General facility. Federal Bureau of Investigation/News release (7/27)
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communication is a skill best practiced daily
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Large, global organizations cannot depend upon one-time communication of values or the use of one or two forms of outreach, writes Arinya Talerngsri. "Instead, after sending, we need to communicate the message again and again, in different ways to different audiences, and we need to even step back from to time to time and communicate yet again," Talerngsri writes. Bangkok Post (7/27)
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"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -John Wooden"Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience." -Viktor Frankl"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive ... it can be done." -Vince Lombardi
"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute." -George Bernard Shaw"Don't let schooling interfere with your education." -Mark Twain
"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity." -Ulysses S. Grant
"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will." -John D. MacDonald
"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." -Walt Disney
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." -Anne Frank
"If you play to win, as I do, the game never ends." -Stan Mikita
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." -Alan Alda
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