BOOKS BY KIM MICHAEL

 

 

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Destined to become a family classic, “A Christmas Story: The Fourth King” is the amazing, fictional story that combines Norse Legend, the birth of Christ, and Santa Claus.

In this heart-felt tale we follow the journeys of good King Nicholai Sinterklaas, a legendary king of an ancient land far to the north as he follows the star of Christmas to find a newborn Child King. But on his journey, he gives away all that he has brought to honor the New King, only to find that he has given the greatest of all.

For some, fate and destiny roll upon the same track. Such is the case of E. Alex Fleming, a young writer whose first book; a World War Two epic about the unlikely friendship between a World War Two airman and the black fighter pilot who saves his life; becomes a huge success only to crash and burn amid allegations of plagiarism.  In a single day Alex looses everything. So too, his young intern agent Kimberly Siecrest, who believed in him when no one else did, looses everything as well.

Together they set out to find the one story that will be their salvation; a man, and the last real life “Johnny Appleseed” American legend that Alex once encountered on the back roads of Georgia when he was a young boy; a man known as America’s Goat Man.

As they retrace the footsteps of the Goat Man across America they discover something even more profound; love, perhaps for the first time in each of their lives. In the end Alex finds the Goat Man in an ending that is as haunting, as it is unexpected.

And through it all, Alex learns that though it is not possible to live forever, it is possible… to love forever.

Today, effectively managing healthcare profitability means understanding and optimizing every touch point of profitability within the provider’s revenue cycle; from maximizing payor contracts, to post contract oversight, to managing line-item revenue loss and denials, to creating efficiencies on all levels that promote growth, stability, and quality of care, while protecting the provider’s best interests. Once managing profitability only meant obtaining the best “payor rates”, but today payor agreements are far more complex and the pitfalls far more costly; today good rates from payors are often purposefully offset by language and terms that deliberately limit even the best reimbursement rates, cutting into provider’s profitability, often without them even realizing it.

Knowing the 7 Deadly Sins of Managed Care Contracting is the first step of insuring the profitability and solvency for any healthcare provider and the primary reason for creating this book.

As the Business of the Medical Industry evolves providers are becoming more and more inundated with new types of reimbursement models, one of which is Value Based Bundled Payments. The concept is simple by definition, reducing certain common procedures such as hip or knee replacement down to a single code, which in theory makes the procedure easier to code and bill for, as well as the reimbursement far less problematic for the payer to pay.

The challenge is in setting up all of the different moving parts at the provider level to insure that the new streamlined Bundled Payment process functions as anticipated. This short EBOOK was designed to walk the provider through each of the six steps in creating Bundled Payments and to provide critical information that every Provider should know in the process.

 

Signed Copies by the Author are available.

The Chrysalis–Postage and handling included…….$25.00

GOAT MAN–Postage and handling included ………$20.00

A Christmas Story: The Fourth King–Postage and handling included……..$15.00

To Order: Send request and check (or money order) by mail to:

         Kim Michael

            PO BOX 1793

                      Hendersonville, TN 37077-1793

* Also please let me know how you would like me to sign the inside cover page.

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