How well do you know your payers? segmentation as a strategic tool for effectively prioritising and targeting payers

How well do you really know your employees?

How Well Do You Know Your Personae Non Gratae?

in many cases people perform only a cursory security analysis and produce rather generic security requirements. But is this the right way to build secure software? Are security requirements so similar across projects that we simply don’t need to invest the time to explore product-level needs or to document requirements at an individual level for each project? Can we instead rely on business-asu...

How do Medicare Physician Fees Compare With Private Payers?

Under the new fee schedule, Medicare physician fees are 76 percent of private fees. Consistent with the intent of payment reform, Medicare physician fees more closely approximate private fees for visits (93 percent) than for surgery (51 percent) and in rural areas as compared with large metropolitan areas. Variation in private fees across the country is considerably greater than it is for Medic...

How Do You Know?

Epistemology is traditionally classified as one of the fields of philosophy, and some psychologists have been content to leave it to the philosophers. In my opinion, the problem of how we know is an absolutely basic concern of psychology, but whether you consider my remarks to be psychology or philosophy I really do not care, as long as you are willing to grant me that the problem is a fundamen...

How do you know your spreadsheet is right?

Think before you write. Resist the urge to jump right in to actual development. Start with a clear understanding of the requirements of your task. Sketch your design on a whiteboard, and look for flaws. Consider alternate software tools such as databases, statistics packages, financial modeling systems, business intelligence systems, mathematical programming languages, and traditional computer ...