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March 3, 2014

  • #aca
  • #colbert
  • #Direct Care
  • #dpc
  • #enrollment
  • #navigators
  • #obamacare
  • #sign up
  • #stephen colbert
  • #support direct care
  • #the colbert report
  • #video
  • #watch

Stephen Colbert Goes Where No Direct Care Patient Has To — Healthcare.gov

You have to love a good healthcare satire. Watch Stephen Colbert try to sign up for insurance on healthcare.gov on The Colbert Report. As an Obamacare “navigator” tries to help him through the process, Colbert makes the situation very uncomfortable when he jokes about getting “actual” care. Of course, as you know, the time-consuming nature of Obamacare enrollment is a prime example of red tape. And, as this sketch indicates, the way our administration fixes red tape, is with more of it, i.e. paid government employees known as “navigators.” Thankfully, here at Atlas MD, we don’t have to hire a team of people to help our patients sign up.

SPOILER ALERT: After a gruesomely awkward incident, Colbert finally finishes entering his information, only to find out the webpage he needs… doesn’t exist.

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October 11, 2013

  • #aca
  • #affordable care act
  • #fines
  • #obamacare
  • #sign up
  • #valentines day

Make Sure Any Uninsured Patients Are Obamacare-Enrolled by Valentine’s Day

You don’t know how much it hurts us to have to cooperate with Federal impositions, but… we’re all in this, direct care docs, concierge docs, and fee-for-service docs planning on transitioning. We found a Washington Post article (article no longer available on Washington Post’s website) that explains an unfortunate loophole (or fortunate, if you’re the one collecting the fines). As you may have heard, March 31 was the declared cut-off date to avoid any Obamacare fines. But nope, it’s come to light that patients will not be considered “insured” until the two weeks of processing is completed (we’ll pretend their submission is “taking a red tape holiday”), and get this, insurance is typically activated on the first of the month. What’s this mean? Patients need to enroll six weeks before the cutoff date, February 15, 2014, to avoid any fines.

Here’s the brief explanation from the Jackson Hewitt tax preparation company. They first pointed out the wrinkle with the health care law’s least popular requirement.

The explanation:
Health insurance coverage typically starts on the first day of a given month, and it takes up to 15 days to process applications.

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October 10, 2013

  • #aca
  • #affordable care act
  • #bloomberg
  • #Direct Care
  • #direct primary care
  • #dpc
  • #enrollment
  • #obamacare
  • #sign up
More Red Tape, More Problems…

More Red Tape, More Problems…

Bloomberg.com followed up on the Obamacare sign-up fiasco. Depending on the source, it might sound like Armageddon or a minor rain shower. Regardless, a program this large was guaranteed to hiccup. However, this hiccup is relevant. Patients who have actually completed their portion of enrollment, and submitted information to the exchange and opted for a plan, are facing a red tape problem — their electronic files are inaccessible or incomplete, thereby stymying insurance processing. Insurers are throwing their hands in the air, saying they can’t do anything, and leaving the subscribers out to dry. It gets worse. These participants might not be technically “insured” come January 1, 2014, and could face a fine.

So what’s the take away? More red tape, more problems.

READ BLOOMBERG’S FOLLOW UP ON OBAMACARE ENROLLMENT

These are the types of bureaucratic headaches that our Atlas.md EMR software was built to avoid. Great news, the free beta version of our software just launched. You can sign up here.

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September 6, 2013

  • #atlas md
  • #beta
  • #Direct Care
  • #direct primary care
  • #dpc
  • #email
  • #emr
  • #launch
  • #sign up
  • #wichita business journal

The Atlas.md Revolution Has Begun

Thanks to Emily Behlmann of the Wichita Business Journal. She reported on an exciting development — two doctors in Pennsylvania have started operating their direct care practice with the help of Atlas.md. As promised, our web-based EMR Atlas.md is available for FREE during the current beta trial. We’re still looking for “cash-only” physicians interested in trying out the software and offering constructive feedback.

READ THE COMPLETE ARTICLE ON THE WBJ

Send us an email if you’re interested in previewing the first EMR/Practice Management software designed for insurance-free medicine. As radical as it sounds now, our movement only becomes commonplace as more doctors participate. Let’s do this together.

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August 15, 2013

  • #adopt one challenge
  • #announcement
  • #Direct Care
  • #direct primary care
  • #dpc
  • #fall
  • #mind the gap
  • #register
  • #sign up
  • #stephen wilkins

Mind The Gap Challenges Docs To Adopt One New Communication Skill

Stephen Wilkins MPH of Mind The Gap recently announced the Adopt One! Challenge. The Challenge, to be launched later the Fall, is encouraging physicians across the U.S. to commit to adopting one new patient-centered communication skill in 2014. If you’re interested in participating, you can sign up here.

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