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Digital Developments to Help Validate Insurance at Check-In
on Clinician's Roundtable
Many of our practices could be more efficient at checking in patients, or perhaps more precise in our record keeping. Insurance claims denials and the process of fighting them can be one source of time-consuming, money-draining aggravation for any practice. But we may be seeing a trend toward technologies that could ease these clerical and financial burdens. To learn a little more about the digital developments that are helping us validate patients' insurance eligibility in advance of their medical visit, host Dr. Larry Kaskel welcomes Nick Galantino, chief executive officer of the LoCicero Medical Group, a nine-provider internal medicine practice in Tampa, Florida, which uses one of the devices currently on the market.
 Dr. Larry Kaskel is a graduate of the Rush Medical College in Chicago and completed his internal medicine internship and residency at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center. Dr. Kaskel is dual board certified in both internal medicine and clinical lipidology. He was one of the earliest certified lipidologists in the nation. In the early 1990's, he participated in clinical trials testing cholesterol medicines alongside Dr. Michael Davidson, a leading expert on cholesterol treatment and management. Dr. Kaskel is on the staff of Lake Forest Hospital and is the founder and medical director of the Heart Attack Prevention Center in Lake County, Illinois. He is married with two young children.
Nicholas Galantino is the chief executive officer of the LoCicero Medical Group, a nine-provider internal medicine practice in Tampa, Florida. He has taught healthcare law as an adjunct professor at St. Leo University in St. Leo, Florida, and lectured on current health care topics. Mr. Galantino has expertise in managed care, contracts, group practice management, real estate acquisition, billing and collection/accounts receivable management and personnel. Additionally, he is a member of the American Academy of Professional Coders. He received his bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of South Florida, and attended Stetson University College of Law, where he received his law degree in 1983. Mr. Galantino is an active member of the Florida Bar and is a licensed real estate broker in the State of Florida.
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