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Chester and Delaware County
Physicians' Advice, Recommendations,
and Knowledge:

The Local ARK
BY BRIAN K. ABALUCK, MD

W

e all have information that can help other
practices in our community. Other practices
have information that can help us. Information
diffuses among us in incomplete and random patterns.
For example: You may have been looking for a medical
biller recently. Maybe you asked a few friends. Maybe you
got enough information to make a good decision. Or, perhaps
you thought you got enough information, but after 6 months,
you found your biller was failing to collect tens of thousands
of dollars. In either scenario, you spent a good deal of time to
pursue an uncertain outcome. The quality of your decisions,
taken in sum, charts the course of your practice.
On behalf of the Chester and Delaware Community
Medical Societies, we are gathering information to help us all
make better decisions. We call this effort to consolidate our
local knowledge (perhaps for a rainy day): The Local ARK.

Below is a link to a series of questions designed to prompt
you to share your knowledge of things relevant to local medical
practice. Answer as many or as few as you wish. By default,
your responses will be anonymous. If you wish, you may tag
responses with your names. We will organize the information
you provide. Feel free to suggest new questions or provide
information outside of specific questions.
Consider an alternative scenario. You may email us and
ask, "I'm looking for a medical biller. Can you help?" We
would then share with you the cumulative knowledge of
your community. Instead of you having access to just a few
opinions, you would have access to the opinions of anyone
who participated in our survey. The Medical Society would
never make recommendations, but we hope that information
provided by your peers informs and improves your decisions.
Thank you for your participation.

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