Newsletter: March 2026

What Had Our Attention This Month:

🍃March is the month we stopped lying to ourselves about decisions we had already made and never followed through on. Not new goals, not a new plan. The stuff we committed to back in January that somehow never got done, and we kept carrying it forward like we were eventually going to get to it.

So we stopped pretending and went back through everything. The projects we said yes to, the offers we talked about launching, the systems that needed work, the conversations we rescheduled so many times they became embarrassing. We picked up each one and made an actual decision, because carrying things forward indefinitely was just avoidance with a better-looking calendar.

Most of what we had been holding onto did not need more time. It needed a real answer, and we had been dodging it because just answering it felt harder than letting things stay unresolved. But every open decision was draining us every single day, pulling focus and slowing everything else down.

Once we started going through each one and finishing it, the noise got lower, the focus got sharper, and there was actual room to breathe again.

March did not ask us for more effort. Instead, it asked us to respect our own decisions enough to either finish them or release them. At the end, that moved us more than anything else we had planned to do.

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✨Where Our Energy Went

Our energy went into closing what we kept carrying.

Not adding more to the list or chasing something new. Just getting back to what had been waiting on us for too long.

We tightened what was loose, finished what still had value, and ended what did not. When we got through it, there was no big moment. Just a quieter mind and a to-do list that finally reflected what we actually intended to do.

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🍃Thoughtful Reads for Your Practice

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🌿Mindful thought of the month

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🔍 Forensic Friday

The Facts

A medical office employee and an external collaborator were charged with two counts of conspiracy, twenty-one counts of medical insurance fraud, and twenty-one counts of identity theft. Patients reported charges for services they never received, with an estimated financial impact exceeding $10,000.

The Fraud

A staff member accessed patient records and pulled identifying information. That data was passed to an individual with access to a separate billing system. False records were created and submitted as legitimate insurance claims for services that never occurred.

The Effect on Finance

🚩 The Red Flag: Invalid claims were booked as real revenue, which means the financial picture was wrong. Financially, the organization was responsible for every one of those claims, no matter who entered them.

When auditors found it, they did not stop at billing. They kept pulling, and what they found was that access controls and monitoring had been deteriorating across multiple areas at the same time. This was not one person making one mistake. The oversight infrastructure had been eroding, and nobody caught it.

The cost went well beyond correcting the revenue numbers. Repayments, legal fees, and the expense of rebuilding controls that should have been there from the start all arrived at once, while the organization was still trying to understand how it reached that point without anyone raising a flag.

What You Should Take From This

An access problem moved through billing, it became your financial vulnerability. Someone inside could pull data and someone outside could push it through a separate system, with nobody watching how those two connected.

When your systems connect to each other without any oversight, this kind of pattern blends in with normal operations. The question worth asking is where something like this could move through undetected. Because once a fraudulent claim runs through your billing, you own it.

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