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Clinical Consulting Services For Cost Management
Jan 5th
Prescription benefits management is emerging as one of the fastest-growing medical sub-specialties, and with very good reason: When used effectively, prescription benefits management can save medical cost payers hundreds of thousands of dollars each year by reducing prescription medication expenses. One aspect of prescription benefits management focuses on the prescriptions themselves. But another — clinical consulting services — seeks to work directly with physicians and other health-care providers to reduce prescription costs.
Some patient advocates have raised concerns about consultants’ access to and influence upon physicians. In a few cases, these concerns may be justified. A few clinical consultants have had close relationships with particular pharmaceutical companies, and have encouraged doctors to choose certain medications for some conditions.
But not all clinical consulting services are created equal. Ethical, professional consultants approach their work from a more holistic perspective, and seek to analyze prescription trends and clinical protocols for cost-savings opportunities, rather than recommending a particular prescription medication. Some consultants even work with physicians and health-care providers to evaluate outcome data, and to seek prescription protocols that provide the optimal combination of successful outcomes and cost containment.
If properly applied, prescription benefits management and clinical consulting services can provide measurable cost management, without adversely impacting patient access to medications or quality of care. When considering clinical consulting services, ask your prospective vendors about their approach. Clinical consulting services that evaluate the entire spectrum of prescription costs, care options and patient outcomes will be most likely to provide significant cost management over the long run.
Comfort Eating & Stress Management
Jan 4th
Almost everyone engages in the act of comfort eating from time to time. It is common to reach for food when we are unhappy in life, feeling stressed, depressed, bored, or disempowered.
Stress has more of a role in what we eat than many realize and a great deal of overeating can be attributed to stress. One common substance that we ingest which can be related to our stress levels is caffeine.
But when we look at people who suffer from stress, depression or anxiety, this statement has no foundation whatsoever. The reason is simple. Foods, no matter what they are, cannot make you stressed.
Stress is the cause of many of today’s health related problems. In today’s hectic world, with the hurried lifestyles that most of us lead, there are several situations which cause us to experience stress.
Stress–we recognize it when we become overwhelmed and when it causes problems. On other days, we tolerate it, resigned to living in a world where new stressors emerge whenever a familiar stressor wanes. We usually locate our stress outside ourselves.
While certainly there are times when we all need to be able to respond to stress, most of us need to learn how to shut this system off or at least try to lessen the intensity. Triggers for this type of response are things like deadlines, bills you can’t pay.
With every negative emotion and thought, comes a level of stress. The more we pile on the negativity as we fear food, hate our body and struggle with life the more our stress levels increase. And what happens when we are stressed.
Your body may tell you it is under too much stress through insomnia, desire for binge eating, fatigue, and foggy thinking with trouble remembering and focusing. I add binge eating, because many head straight to comfort food when stress compounds.
Comfort eating essentially involves eating in response to emotional needs as opposed to nutritional or physiological needs. Comfort eaters frequently overeat and when someone overeats on a regular basis obesity and associated health problems such as high blood pressure.
However, you should also remember that certain people experience weight gain simply because they are feeling better and have regained their appetite, not because of the medication. So be sure to pin-point exactly what is affecting your weight gain. Once you have figured out what your weight is driven by, there are several options to help you deal with the problem.
Play with a dog or cat. Experts say pet owners have longer lives and fewer stress symptoms that non-pet owners. Playing with your pet provide good vibrations – for you and for the pet! It’s a form of social interaction with no pressure to meet anyone’s expectations!
Stress and weight control are so closely tied together. Stress can lead to over eating whether it is a temporary relief from the stress, to fulfill some other emotional need or because a stressful life does not allow you the time to eat healthy meals.
Favorite home-made foods in the us include meatloaf, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes (or twice-baked potato), applesauce, fried chicken, chicken noodle soup, pizza, peanut butter, ice cream, and bacon, eggs, and hash browns for breakfast.
How to Improve Your Golf Course Management
Jan 3rd
One of the ways to drastically lower your score is to improve your golf course management. This basically means improving the way you approach and play each hole on the course.
So lets get started.
Do you get on to the tee box of a par four or a par five and automatically reach for your driver? Do you look at the layout of a particular whole and decide which club will be best suited to the teeshot? Do you ever look at the obstacles ahead of you when teeing off or playing your approach shot towards a green and decide on the best position to be in for the following shot? When
hitting approach shots to the green, do you always go for the pin?
If your answer is no to all of these questions then you struggle with golf course management.
There are two very important things to think about when playing your shot.
1) If I hit the ball to a certain position on a hole, what will my next shot be like and what is the chance that I will be playing the next shot from the fairway or the green?
2) Where is the best position for my ball to be in for the next shot?
That is basically what it all comes down to.
From were will I be hitting my next shot?
Don’t get me wrong, I like hitting my driver as much as the next guy. The problem just comes in when I don’t hit my drive straight or the landing area of the drive is riddled with hazards. My next shot will then most probably be a recovery shot from the hazard, which basically is a waste of a shot and after playing one recovery shot on every hole I end up playing 18 more shots than I should have.
So here is how to improve your course management and to get rid of those extra wasted shots.
1) Before hitting the ball analyse the hole ahead and identify all possible hazards.
2) Select an area on the fairway to hit to that hasn’t got too many hazards and a relatively large room for error.
3) Select a club that you feel comfortable with hitting to that area.
4) Hit the ball and look forward to a hazard free next shot.
All this method will help you do is select the right club for the shot and leave you in the best possible position to play the following shot. Sure, you might have to hit a 3 wood instead of a driver or aim towards the wider part of the green, but I’d rather sacrifice a bit of distance or accuracy than playing my next shot from a hazard that will cost me an extra shot on that hole.
Hope this helps.
