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11/05/2012 - Solo doctors have alternatives to hospital employment
11/05/2012 - Medical Billing Confusion: Do You Know What You're Paying For?
11/05/2012 - Retail clinics gain repeat customers: study
11/05/2012 - Healthcare fraud detection faces unknown impact from ICD-10 implementation
11/05/2012 - Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care
11/05/2012 - Reflecting on Our IT Progress
11/05/2012 - Corporate America’s big embrace of high-deductible insurance plans
11/05/2012 - How to use Twitter in a hurricane with no power or Internet access
11/05/2012 - Where the jobs are: Healthcare and life science startups that are hiring and the positions they want to fill
11/05/2012 - Groups urge pricing transparency in healthcare
11/05/2012 - Five Things to Learn from Bloomberg About Crisis Communications
11/05/2012 - Physicians’ PACs lay big money on 2012 races
10/29/2012 - Drug stores can give you a flu shot. What about other vaccines?
10/29/2012 - Leslie Michelson: Doctor to the 1%?
10/29/2012 - 5 Tips for Anesthesia Billing
10/29/2012 - Primary care doc: It’s “crazy” that doctors don’t consider costs in patient treatment plans
10/29/2012 - Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs
10/29/2012 - What if buying surgery was like buying a car?
10/29/2012 - The 6 Biggest Federal IT Trends Coming in 2013
10/29/2012 - Health insurers open shops in malls to attract new business
10/29/2012 - The Family Doctor, Minus the M.D.
10/29/2012 - MGMA: Payment Uncertainty Dampens Physician Spending
10/29/2012 - 5 market changes that will affect healthcare reimbursement
10/29/2012 - Healthcare system hackers usually after financial info
10/29/2012 - Questions Linger About Implementing Doctors' Medicaid Pay Raise
10/29/2012 - Health Care History Through Humor
10/29/2012 - Only 26 Percent of Physicians Feel They Have Control Over the Finances of Their Practices
10/29/2012 - Practices in 7 states join collaborative accountable care program
10/29/2012 - Mayo, Geisinger work with patients to improve billing
10/29/2012 - Demand for better ambulance billing drives Emergicon's growth
10/29/2012 - Doctor shortage could take turn for the worse
10/29/2012 - States making health law decisions that could all change post-election
10/29/2012 - Report: Medicare payment instability keeps practices from trying new models
10/29/2012 - MALWARE THREATENS MEDICAL MACHINES AND SYSTEMS
10/29/2012 - Facing Medicare pay cut, many doc groups ready to curtail service: survey
10/29/2012 - Influx of newly insured a prompt for practices to rethink patient flow
10/29/2012 - 5 market changes that will affect healthcare reimbursement
10/29/2012 - How to read a Cleveland Clinic bill: Medical Billing, a world of hurt
10/29/2012 - Large employers look to on-site health clinics to reduce costs and absenteeism
10/29/2012 - HHS IG pledges focus on Medicare billing abuse involving electronic records
10/22/2012 - Mostashari: Paper records are great ... if you're Harry Potter
10/22/2012 - Most consumers blame insurers, Rx companies–not docs–for rising healthcare costs
10/22/2012 - Aetna, Cigna announce accountable care initiatives
10/22/2012 - Robo-Doctors Signal the Rise of the Medical Machines
10/22/2012 - Peeling Away Healthcare’s Sticker Shock
10/22/2012 - The Doctor Can See You Now. Really, Right Now.
10/22/2012 - Doc office prices go up 0.5% in September
10/22/2012 - Physician office visits edge up as preventive care makes gains
10/22/2012 - Ranking: Idaho best place for physicians
10/22/2012 - Twitter official offers caveats for healthcare use
10/15/2012 - New Style of Health Care Emerges to Fill Hospital’s Void
10/15/2012 - Digital Health: Almost a Real, Live Business
10/15/2012 - Apps Alert the Doctor When Trouble Looms
10/15/2012 - With Telemedicine as Bridge, No Hospital Is an Island
10/15/2012 - Mobile health is huge for developers, entrepreneurs and wireless companies
10/15/2012 - Banner Health becomes one of the first health care systems in the nation to offer single patient accounts for their customers
10/15/2012 - Docs Working Less As Flood Of New Patients Looms
10/15/2012 - Incentivize, support docs for accountable care success
10/15/2012 - The Doctor’s Bag for the New Millennium
10/15/2012 - The Ups and Downs of Electronic Medical Records
10/15/2012 - The Case for Calm Over Rising Health Costs
10/15/2012 - Survey reveals dour physician outlook
10/15/2012 - Healthcare workforce continues to grow with addition of 44K jobs in September
10/15/2012 - Why the next wave of health IT innovation will build on EMRs, cater to “physician happiness”
10/15/2012 - CVS's MinuteClinic enters Cincinnati market
10/09/2012 - Feds charge 91 healthcare providers with billing fraud
10/09/2012 - Physicians cite business need for health data exchange
10/09/2012 - LETTER - Reducing Billing Errors
10/09/2012 - Deloitte's Craig Wigginton on threats to mHealth advances
10/09/2012 - Electronic med. billing may inflate payments
10/09/2012 - Americans Are Visiting the Doctor Less Frequently, Census Bureau Reports
10/09/2012 - When Doctors Stop Taking Insurance
10/09/2012 - Verizon Develops a HIPAA-Compliant Healthcare Cloud Service
10/09/2012 - Aging population a boon for health care workers
10/09/2012 - Yes, we do know how to control health cost inflation
10/09/2012 - The Medical Billing Code Creeps
10/09/2012 - Medical Billing Service
10/09/2012 - 4 keys to developing positive working relationships with physicians
10/09/2012 - $90M In Partners Grants Aim To Transform Community Health Centers
10/09/2012 - Hospital Association Fires Back at Feds for 'Upcoding' Criticism
10/09/2012 - Insurers latest to champion medical homes
10/09/2012 - Doctors sue over balance-billing ban for natural disasters
10/09/2012 - Employee health clinics on the rise
10/09/2012 - 30 Issues: Why You Should Care About ... the Cost of Health Care Overhead
10/09/2012 - EHRs May Increase Bills But Physicians No More Likely to Upcode
10/09/2012 - Studies show California concerned with care costs, physician shortages
10/01/2012 - Attention, shoppers: No health insurance? Doctors offer deals, reward points on this site
10/01/2012 - ICD-10: The First step toward greater provider-payer collaboration
10/01/2012 - Highmark lays out ‘medical mall’ plan
10/01/2012 - 3 lessons to learn from Massachusetts' new healthcare law
10/01/2012 - Colonoscopy Billings Confuse Patients
10/01/2012 - Hospitals hungry for deals under health reform
10/01/2012 - Plain-language rules go into effect for health plans, HHS says
10/01/2012 - Commentary: Will health IT increase fraud and abuse?
10/01/2012 - Health insurance costs grew slowly for two years. Now, they’re speeding up.
10/01/2012 - More cardiologists embrace working for hospitals
10/01/2012 - Medical billing, a world of hurt: Patients confused about hospital charges for doctors visits
10/01/2012 - Will health coverage cost trends blunt the rebound in physician office visits?
10/01/2012 - Claims Data and Health Care Fraud: The Controversy Continues
10/01/2012 - Supreme Court to hear cases on hospital deals, payment appeals
10/01/2012 - Phones, tablets may become most popular tech devices for docs since the stethoscope
10/01/2012 - Report homes in on true drivers of healthcare cost
10/01/2012 - Hospitals, practices partner for higher reimbursements
10/01/2012 - Healthcare consolidation under state, federal scrutiny Part of wider concern about containing costs
10/01/2012 - Rising prices, not utilization, boost health spending
09/24/2012 - Doctors, this physician-entrepreneur wants to cut back lost time from canceled appointments
09/24/2012 - Judgment calls on billing make 'upcoding' prosecutions rare
09/24/2012 - Consumers want health tech to connect but say docs don't deliver
09/24/2012 - Urgent Care Centers Are Booming, Which Worries Some Doctors
09/24/2012 - Patient-Centered Medical Home is fee-for-service alternative
09/24/2012 - 4-day workweek popular for doctors’ flexible scheduling
09/24/2012 - Calif. Hospital Association chief defends consolidation efforts
09/24/2012 - Physician Abrasion: A Subtle, Yet Important Issue for Payers
09/24/2012 - Here’s an approach that anyone developing an e-visit program for remote patients needs to consider
09/24/2012 - Physician search engine and appointment startup raising $1M
09/24/2012 - XXL MOBs Medical office buildings grow in girth
09/24/2012 - 6 women represent healthcare in Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women list
09/24/2012 - Physician’s view: Gearing up for new EHR software
09/24/2012 - Policy changes, more IT promotion needed to spur wider EHR adoption: senators
09/24/2012 - America’s Health Worker Mismatch
09/24/2012 - 71 out-of-the-box ideas the healthcare industry would consider if it controlled reform
09/24/2012 - Self-auditing: Use nurse, staff expertise
09/24/2012 - Group Health Insurance Premiums up 97% Since 2002
09/24/2012 - What's behind slowed health spending?
09/18/2012 - A few doctors learn how to be Medicaid millionaires
09/18/2012 - Many hospitals recruiting doctors continually
09/18/2012 - Payers Developing and Acquiring Surgery Centers: Growing Model of ASC Ownership
09/18/2012 - Medical spending likely to remain high despite healthcare law
09/18/2012 - More cardiologists working for hospitals
09/18/2012 - 3 trends reshaping physician practices
09/18/2012 - Foreign docs could ease U.S. physician shortage
09/18/2012 - ONC tables regulation of Nationwide Health Information Network
09/18/2012 - Healthcare adds 16,700 jobs in August
09/18/2012 - The Science Behind Medical Billing
09/18/2012 - PBS documentary explains healthcare costs
09/18/2012 - Physician practices concerned over ICD-10 readiness
09/18/2012 - Payers embrace medical homes 'with enthusiasm' to cut costs, improve care
09/18/2012 - Rise in hospital PPI highest since October 2008
09/18/2012 - N.C. Blues invests in urgent-care clinics
09/18/2012 - 7 things medical billers should do to increase revenue
09/18/2012 - When doc's office is open longer, patient costs dip
09/18/2012 - Health-care premiums rise three times faster than wages
09/18/2012 - Why Small Business Should Wait On Health Care Decisions
09/10/2012 - Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
09/10/2012 - Plenty of healthcare data, but what to do with it?
09/10/2012 - IOM calls for better use of technology in healthcare
09/10/2012 - How to bill for screening and treating obesity in adults
09/10/2012 - Health Care Where You Work
09/10/2012 - Gawande: Connect data to real-world practice to improve healthcare
09/10/2012 - More tablets, less alert fatigue among 2013 health IT predictions
09/10/2012 - Medicare reimbursement incentive less than effective
09/10/2012 - Video Dial-A-Doctor Seen Easing Shortage In Rural U.S.
09/10/2012 - Payers cool to IT business prospects
09/10/2012 - Is Your Doctor Overcharging You?
09/10/2012 - The Arkansas Innovation
09/10/2012 - HealthPartners merger creates payer-provider powerhouse
09/10/2012 - Tech VC: Machines can learn up to 80 percent of what doctors do, replace healthcare voodoo
09/10/2012 - As more patients see physicians again, health plan earnings drop
09/10/2012 - Will concierge medicine’s image improve as it evolves?
09/10/2012 - From Physician Glut to Physician Shortage
09/10/2012 - Aetna, Coventry and the arms race in health care
09/10/2012 - Report: No Area Of U.S. Cheats Medicare More Than S. Fla.
09/10/2012 - Young tech-savvy docs want a real life, but don't call them slackers
09/10/2012 - Blog: In Ore., training medical residents for a new practice environment
09/10/2012 - Patient convenience drives real estate location decisions
09/10/2012 - Medical Centers Begin Training Programs For Specialists On Addictions
09/04/2012 - Affordable Care Act driving health care mergers
09/04/2012 - Transforming healthcare will require business model changes
09/04/2012 - Health-Care Costs Continue to Worry Small Business Owners
09/04/2012 - Survey: Physician use of EHRs has met 'critical mass'
09/04/2012 - Healthcare Business Models Clash with Reforms
09/04/2012 - 4 Tips to Avoid Problem Areas for EHR Auditing
09/04/2012 - Growth at DoctorsXL outstripping workforce availability
09/04/2012 - Health Insurance Providers Score High on Trust, Need Improvement on Message Clarity
09/04/2012 - Maryland considers complete overhaul of payment system to doctors, hospitals
09/04/2012 - Insurer, provider, pharma executives unsure how to adopt new payment models
09/04/2012 - Doctor Rate Gaps May Be Short-Lived
09/04/2012 - Jackson Health considers outsourcing ED physicians
09/04/2012 - Doctors sound off on direct-to-consumer tests
09/04/2012 - Doctor Shortage May Swell To 130,000 With U.S. Cap
09/04/2012 - Covered by health insurance, woman ‘floored’ by ER bill
09/04/2012 - No penalties for employers not offering dependent coverage: Employer group
09/04/2012 - Digital radiology market expected to reach $13.3B globally in 2018
09/04/2012 - Health systems get in the insurance biz
08/28/2012 - Hospitals Slow to Embrace ACOs
08/28/2012 - For Ransom: Your Medical Records
08/28/2012 - Value-added byproducts of a well executed ICD-10 project
08/28/2012 - Self-funded employers will pay billions for high-cost coverage
08/28/2012 - 91% of Physicians Are Interested in Mobile EHRs
08/28/2012 - Aetna to buy Coventry in Medicare, Medicaid expansion
08/28/2012 - Small practices may be least able to take new Medicaid patients
08/28/2012 - Doctors play key role in ACO leadership: Commonwealth Fund
08/28/2012 - Three major insurers seek up to 14 percent rate hike for small business coverage
08/28/2012 - 68% of Graduating Physicians Want Sign-on Bonus, 29% Want Hospital Practice
08/28/2012 - Finances most likely reason for large-group doctors to seek new jobs
08/28/2012 - Survey: Hospitals Name Their Least Favorite Insurers
08/28/2012 - Health IT safety is a journey
08/28/2012 - When you need an actuary
08/20/2012 - FAIR Health database of claims opens to researchers
08/20/2012 - Medicare pilot attempts to correct Medicare 'loophole' policy in hospital observation stays
08/20/2012 - Healthcare adds 12,000 jobs in July
08/20/2012 - Health care fraud targeted by new public-private partnership
08/20/2012 - Half of EHRs Sold Are Replacements
08/20/2012 - City, Blue Shield team up on detecting fraud
08/20/2012 - Facebook friends with your doctor: good medicine or ethically 'icky'?
08/20/2012 - A Giant Hospital Chain Is Blazing a Profit Trail
08/20/2012 - Use of retail health clinics quadruples from 2007 to 2009
08/20/2012 - Health insurers’ earnings plunge for 2d quarter: Firms cite effort to keep premiums low
08/13/2012 - IOM wants map redrawn on Medicare doctor pay
08/13/2012 - Physicians seeing patient visits rebound in 2012
08/13/2012 - Businesses Looking for Ways to Curb Rising Health-Care Costs
08/13/2012 - Self-service health screening, monitoring aims at retail: Kiosk maker SoloHealth raises $12M
08/13/2012 - Personalized medicine by 2020 and other futuristic healthcare predictions (infographic)
08/13/2012 - Walgreens’ clinics to offer mobile health app for appointments, symptom checker in pilot program
08/13/2012 - Businesses think the growth of health insurance premiums is slowing. Yes, really.
08/13/2012 - Are insurers recycling managed care ideas with narrow network plans?
08/13/2012 - ECG Management Consultants, Inc., Releases Findings From Its Thirteenth Annual Provider Compensation, Production, and Benefits Surveys
08/13/2012 - 21 Traits, Challenges and Secrets for Medical Practice Managers
08/07/2012 - No Cost or No Care? Health centers adjust to new federal provision
08/07/2012 - Solo practice physicians: 'I'm not dead!'
08/07/2012 - Docs enhance concierge-like services with modest fees
08/07/2012 - In-store clinics look to be a remedy for healthcare law influx
08/07/2012 - Computer-assisted coding promises to ease the pain of the ICD-10 transition
08/07/2012 - GAO: Urban hospitals, South lead in EHR payments
08/07/2012 - Aetna, Aurora Health ACO offer employers a price guarantee
08/07/2012 - Doctor Shortage Likely to Worsen With Health Law
08/07/2012 - Worries grow as healthcare firms send jobs overseas
08/07/2012 - The early returns on accountable care Newly minted ACOs grapple with allocating resources and adjusting operations to put the theory to work
08/07/2012 - Sleep centers provide lessons for need to adapt in changing health system
08/07/2012 - Experience — not price — more important to patients in choosing providers
08/07/2012 - The 5 Most Common Types of Medical Billing Fraud
08/07/2012 - Insurance Rebates Seen as Selling Point for Health Law
08/07/2012 - Colorado pilot tests payment model to make behavioral health-primary care integration financially viable
08/07/2012 - One-in-four PCPs in financial difficulty
08/02/2012 - Health beat: 'Patient sharing' breaks old molds
08/02/2012 - Health-care law driving doctors away from small practices, toward hospital employment
08/02/2012 - Hospitals behind physician recruiting for not-so-solo practices
08/02/2012 - Why the EHR market is on the brink of mass consolidation
08/02/2012 - The Big Push on Medicaid Fraud
08/02/2012 - Sharing health app data with Facebook isn’t enough
08/02/2012 - Top 5 reasons why the physician practice is dying
08/02/2012 - 9 ways ICD-10 could hurt providers and patients
08/02/2012 - Healthcare's Hottest for 2012; 40 of the healthcare industry's fastest growing companies
08/02/2012 - Companies Flock To The Electronic Health Records Market
08/02/2012 - Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device
08/02/2012 - Colo. program looks to integrate primary, behavioral care
08/02/2012 - Boston Hospitals team to bring telehealth to big companies
08/02/2012 - Clicking with your doctor
08/02/2012 - UCLA doctors to oversee 11 CVS in-store clinics
08/02/2012 - Practice survival hinges on new models, technology
08/02/2012 - 6 steps successful practice managers follow to maximize revenue
08/02/2012 - Four lessons healthcare CEOs can learn from the hospitality industry
08/02/2012 - U.S. doctors adopting computerized records
08/02/2012 - Nurses, PAs use health IT more than physicians
08/02/2012 - How the Affordable Care Act will stimulate new industries
07/25/2012 - Tips on negotiating an employment contract for part-time practice
07/25/2012 - Market pricing Competition for many specialists continues to drive physician salaries higher, annual survey shows
07/25/2012 - Aetna, N.J. group to launch ACO
07/25/2012 - 5 ways telemedicine is reducing the cost of healthcare
07/25/2012 - Smartphones Replace Medical Transcriptionists
07/25/2012 - How to avoid turning over patient accounts to a collection agency
07/25/2012 - Pay by Voice? So Long, Wallet
07/25/2012 - Health plans look for fraud before they pay claims
07/25/2012 - Vanguard, CHS and LifePoint face billing probes
07/25/2012 - Health clinics brace for 'pent-up demand'
07/25/2012 - In-office pharmacies drive up drug costs for insurers
07/25/2012 - 5 keys to a positive financial impact of ICD-10
07/25/2012 - Consumer hospital prices rise 1.2% in June
07/25/2012 - Recruiting firm says solo physician practice is dead
07/25/2012 - Home care franchises are hot, hot, hot
07/25/2012 - Adventist Health to open Santa Rosa billing office
07/25/2012 - Hospital Moves Billing Department, Loses 17 Jobs
07/25/2012 - Report: Higher Payments Are No Cure For Doctor Shortage
07/25/2012 - Accountable care organizations aim to cut costs, increase quality
07/25/2012 - Action 9: Doctor care for members only
07/25/2012 - Hospitals, Blues plan battle over radiology billing
07/25/2012 - 5 ways to maximize revenue from an EHR
07/25/2012 - 12 reasons healthcare pays more than other industries for IT
07/25/2012 - CDC: Majority of U.S. physicians adopting EHRs
07/25/2012 - U.S. Women Have More Trouble Paying Medical Bills
07/10/2012 - Medicare is basis for medical billing errors
07/10/2012 - These five states will have the most healthcare jobs between 2010 and 2020
07/10/2012 - Family Doctors Seen as Winners as High Court Upholds Law
07/10/2012 - Ten commandments of digital health
07/10/2012 - How does reform's Medicaid provision impact payers?
07/10/2012 - Healthcare spending on children rising faster than spending for adults, report says
07/10/2012 - Ahead of the game ACOs already in place gain momentum
07/10/2012 - Report: Digital health firm investments skyrocketing
07/10/2012 - Health-Care Advocates: Do You Need One?
07/10/2012 - Curbing the cost of health care
07/10/2012 - Infographic: Growth in allied health careers
07/10/2012 - Calif. Medical Association, docs sue Aetna
07/10/2012 - 5 Ways to Avoid Getting Ripped Off at the Doctor's Office
07/02/2012 - Preventing fraud: How much do medical practices lose and why?
07/02/2012 - Inova to partner with Aetna on new health insurance plan
07/02/2012 - 3 Future Trends for Telehealth
07/02/2012 - Trying to Navigate the Maze of Medical Costs
07/02/2012 - Medical Billing Errors: What can go wrong? What can you do?
07/02/2012 - Most Medicare docs used EHR in 2011
07/02/2012 - Medical workload now shared by many Health care teamwork approach aims to free up doctors' time
07/02/2012 - 2012 National Physicians Survey
07/02/2012 - PayerView rankings show no improvement in 2011
07/02/2012 - CT orders level off as awareness of radiation risk grows
07/02/2012 - Report: Healthcare spends $9 billion a year (and counting) on staying connected
07/02/2012 - Payer CEOs outline 3 keys to high-value, low-cost healthcare
07/02/2012 - ONC improves usability of online certified EHRs list
07/02/2012 - How to avoid a health data spill when recycling IT
07/02/2012 - Consumers expected to call for more telehealth services
07/02/2012 - Aetna pinches off fraud with data-mining, info-sharing tech
07/02/2012 - Medicare pay woes are medical practices' top challenge: survey
07/02/2012 - OIG: Docs using EHRs still manually code evaluation and management services
07/02/2012 - Retail Health Clinics Expanding
07/02/2012 - Doctors: We could go out of business
07/02/2012 - GAO slams HHS on e-prescribing privacy guidance
07/02/2012 - De-coding the Medical Codes
07/02/2012 - Hospital boosts patient payments via online portal
06/26/2012 - Doctors on demand: 5 startups wiping out the waiting room
06/26/2012 - EHR payments have gone out to more than 100,000: HHS
06/26/2012 - Medicare joins with insurers to test paying for care management
06/26/2012 - How do Wall Street analysts expect the Supreme Court to rule on Obamacare?
06/26/2012 - Researcher: Non-secure patient-doc emails OK if both sides accept risk
06/26/2012 - Streamlining EHR and billing systems
06/26/2012 - Telerounds, patient experts and other ways mobile devices are impacting the medical industry
06/26/2012 - Work-site clinics try to cover employees’ medical access gaps
06/26/2012 - Supreme Court health care ruling: Businesses urge cool-down after decision
06/26/2012 - How physicians get paid for call coverage is shifting
06/26/2012 - After-hours care doesn’t have to drain practice’s finances
06/26/2012 - Medica to pay Mayo Clinic based on patient health management
06/26/2012 - New State Laws Encourage ACO Formation, Create Demonstrations
06/26/2012 - Docs increasingly connecting through YouTube
06/26/2012 - Medical claims error rate drops to 9.5%: AMA
06/26/2012 - Survey: Healthcare Changes Make 83% of Physicians Consider Quitting
06/26/2012 - Most Calif. docs' EHRs wouldn't meet meaningful use: study
06/26/2012 - Services diagnose, treat medical billing errors
06/15/2012 - UnitedHealth plans to keep overhaul elements
06/15/2012 - Top 10 data security breaches in 2012
06/15/2012 - Premera Blue Cross builds new payment model rooted in FFS)
06/15/2012 - Healthcare billing, payment changes could save billions: report
06/15/2012 - How a CEO prepares for Senate testimony
06/15/2012 - 10 payer-driven accountable care organizations
06/15/2012 - drchrono adds new features to mobile EHR platform
06/15/2012 - CMS releases national health spending projections through 2021
06/15/2012 - AHA endorses updated patient billing, collection procedures
06/15/2012 - 8 Points on Whether In-House Billing or Outsourcing Services Makes More Sense for ASCs
06/15/2012 - Thousands lose Medicare billing rights during revalidation
06/15/2012 - Settlements announced in billing cases
06/15/2012 - 4 unexpected mobile health findings from physicians, payers and patients
06/15/2012 - Health experts grapple over best agency to lead paperwork reduction effort
06/15/2012 - Cut Your Health Care Costs With These 4 Websites
06/15/2012 - Value-based purchasing gains traction with healthcare leaders
06/15/2012 - Report: Simplifying office tasks could save health system $40 billion
06/15/2012 - UnitedHealthcare launches online cost estimator
06/15/2012 - Prosecution is key to fraud prevention
06/15/2012 - Steep Rise in Health Costs Projected
06/11/2012 - Bridging the Doctor-Patient Gap
06/11/2012 - Healthcare adds 32,800 jobs in May
06/11/2012 - AG names 28 in civil complaint alleging illegal Medicaid billing scheme
06/11/2012 - Digital detection flags possible fraud
06/11/2012 - Home Health Agency Owner Pleads Guilty in Connection with Detroit Fraud Scheme
06/11/2012 - Factbox: Health benefits Americans could lose in court ruling
06/11/2012 - New York Hospitals Look to Combine, Forming a Giant
06/11/2012 - The Downside Of Health Care Job Growth
06/11/2012 - For-profit hospitals would face hit if reform falls: Moody's
06/11/2012 - $115 million in overpayments alleged
06/11/2012 - Insurer UnitedHealth’s board approves more than 30 percent increase in quarterly dividend
06/11/2012 - Protecting health care jobs shouldn’t be part of cost-control debate, Harvard economists argue
06/01/2012 - 3 ways to set up online payment systems for patients
06/01/2012 - Man earning degree at 88
06/01/2012 - Santa Clara County IPA forms new medical group offshoot
06/01/2012 - How medical practices get a return on CDI and better coding
06/01/2012 - Health care systems vow savings for exclusive contracts
06/01/2012 - Cigna expands ACO model with 5 independent hospitals
06/01/2012 - Consumers beware: Health care costs all over the map
05/25/2012 - Physician: Drive for profit hurts health care
05/25/2012 - Study: Health care costs on rise
05/25/2012 - The Health-Care Industry Turns to Big Data
05/25/2012 - Utah doctors are making house calls — at work
05/25/2012 - Data trove may shed light on health-care uncertainties
05/25/2012 - Health Bargain Hunters Use Websites to Cut Doctor Bills
05/25/2012 - Rise in physician tablet use means less than meets the eye
05/25/2012 - More Care Up Front For $54 A Month
05/25/2012 - MinuteClinic affiliates with two N.J. systems
05/25/2012 - Telemedicine market to hit $2.5B by 2018
05/25/2012 - Houston doctor blames agencies in Medicare scam
05/25/2012 - Health and Human Services acting Secretary Al Delia said Wednesday the unusual Medicaid billing is valued at up to $191 million.
05/25/2012 - OIG probes physician Medicare billing for office visits
05/25/2012 - Decreased reimbursement rates spell shortages in doctors and patient care
05/25/2012 - ‘The PayPal of healthcare’ raises $14 million
05/25/2012 - The Rare Bipartisan Health Idea: Affordable Concierge Medicine
05/21/2012 - First, personalized medicine; next, personalized health insurance
05/21/2012 - Easy health-care credit cards put N.J. patients at risk
05/21/2012 - The Importance of Correct Coding in Specialty-Focused Cancer Treatment Centers
05/21/2012 - Health insurance expansion looming, primary care turf battle heats up
05/21/2012 - In health care, cheaper can mean better
05/21/2012 - Accretive Health Initiates Panel of Health Care Policy Experts to Establish National Standards for Health Care Providers' Financial Interactions with
Other Health Care Stakeholders
Invited to Participate
05/21/2012 - Lawsuit: Interns provided free labor, worked menial tasks
05/21/2012 - Why understanding the iPhone could be a key to healthcare reform
05/21/2012 - Trauma in EMS
05/21/2012 - Attention Health Care Shoppers: Colorado's New Price List For Procedures
05/21/2012 - Businesses slow to employ health-care law
05/21/2012 - Healthcare jobs fuel revival in Pittsburgh
05/21/2012 - Fraud prevention: Do you know what the criminals are up to?
05/21/2012 - Mostashari: Government should play booster role in health IT innovation
05/21/2012 - Doctors ditching the prescription pad as more than a third of prescriptions now are electronic
05/14/2012 - Medical billing, a world of hurt: The most common errors, explained
05/14/2012 - Fraud, higher coding cited for cost increases
05/14/2012 - Medical billing codes wreak havoc
05/14/2012 - Discrepancies on Medical Bills Can Leave a Credit Stain
05/14/2012 - Unpleasant memories Hospital billing, Medicare bankruptcy stories recall old times
05/14/2012 - Digging into docs' love-hate relationship with EHRs
05/14/2012 - Physicians and social media: Follow the money
05/14/2012 - Health care fraud is a big and sleazy business
05/14/2012 - Horizon opens retail store with customer service, technology
05/14/2012 - Payer-provider data transparency key to ACO success
05/14/2012 - Medical records important to CTG's financial health
05/14/2012 - 5 much better ways to collect patient debt
05/14/2012 - Social Platform allows docs to track patients wanting to stay healthy for monthly fee
05/14/2012 - Business Owners Try to Make Sense of Health Care
05/14/2012 - Blue Cross, Trinity Health sign ACO deal
05/14/2012 - Feds probe Humana on claims, doc loans
05/14/2012 - Massachusetts Lawmakers Unveil Ambitious Plan To Cut Health Care Costs
05/14/2012 - Insurers Embrace 'Virtual' Doctor Visits
05/14/2012 - Healthcare adds fewer jobs in April
05/14/2012 - Moving Away From Fee-for-Service
05/07/2012 - Patient Safety Leaders Propose ‘NTSB for Healthcare’
05/07/2012 - New report finds one-third of U.S. adults use social media to discuss health issues
05/07/2012 - Medical offices seek security in aligning with networks
05/07/2012 - Students endure medical school, doctoral exams for uncertain job market
05/07/2012 - Dire Medicare outlook assumes deep physician pay cuts
05/07/2012 - Senior physicians keep working, putting off the R-word
05/07/2012 - Lack of urgency causing slow automation of healthcare processes
05/07/2012 - Why social media, healthcare don't mix: One doc's take
05/07/2012 - It's going to get worse
05/07/2012 - 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare, 2012
05/07/2012 - Half of docs think they're underpaid
05/07/2012 - Is comparison shopping the future of health care? Silicon Valley says yes.
05/07/2012 - Physicians fight “unworkable” Medicare overpayment rule
05/07/2012 - Prices for doctor services lag behind inflation
05/07/2012 - Health insurers’ push to diversify raises ethical concerns
05/02/2012 - Physicians feeling pressure from patients’ financial problems
05/02/2012 - AMA urges Medicare to rescind prepayment review demo
05/02/2012 - More physicians calling the shots in latest round of ACOs
05/02/2012 - G.A.O. Calls Test Project by Medicare Costly Waste
05/02/2012 - Insurers Alter Cost Formula, and Patients Pay More
05/02/2012 - The Confusion of Hospital Pricing
05/02/2012 - Clipboard: With recent data breaches, health industry affected more people than financial services
05/02/2012 - No ROI in ACO - Risk, expense of Medicare program has most for-profit groups shying away
05/02/2012 - Medicare overpaid bonuses to doctors for years
05/02/2012 - Some physicians offer service based on monthly retainers
05/02/2012 - Fewer employers offering health benefits, study says
05/02/2012 - Health insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield’s data analysis spinoff looking to grow
05/02/2012 - Rise of ACOs leads to AAAHC reorganization
05/02/2012 - Report: Health care law rebates to top $1B
05/02/2012 - McKesson to pay $190 million to resolve false-claims allegations
05/02/2012 - Business Etiquette: 5 Rules That Matter Now
05/02/2012 - Cost to comply with Sunshine Act could be nearly $200K per firm
05/02/2012 - CMS to revamp anti-fraud programs
05/02/2012 - EHR adoption still lags for small, rural practices: researchers
05/02/2012 - The State of Health-Care Spending In 3 Terrifying Charts
05/02/2012 - Docs earn up to $44,000 for admin tasks: MGMA-ACMPE
05/02/2012 - Physicians eager but unprepared to meet Meaningful Use requirements
05/02/2012 - Twitter becomes a key real-time tool for campaigns
04/25/2012 - Consumers see hospital, doc-office prices rise 0.2%
04/25/2012 - IRS proposed rule details how health care reform law plan fees are calculated
04/25/2012 - Cuomo signs order to create insurance exchange
04/25/2012 - Medicare moves to tie doctors’ pay to quality and cost of care
04/25/2012 - Cyber attacks targeting more small, midsize businesses: Panel
04/25/2012 - Some physicians say home is where the practice is
04/25/2012 - Healthcare pricing still a struggle for consumers
04/25/2012 - Search is on to cure EHR alert fatigue
04/25/2012 - Two medical malpractice insurers roll back rates
04/25/2012 - Practice Makes Perfect: Make patient-centered approach top priority
04/25/2012 - Doctors on deck -- ACOs led by doctors seek to manage costs, quality and hospital relationships
04/25/2012 - First physician selected to lead World Bank
04/25/2012 - Options limited if Medicare insolvency hits: GOP docs
04/25/2012 - Ariz. doc practice to pay $100,000 in HIPAA settlement
04/16/2012 - EHR payments accelerate for docs, slow for hospitals
04/16/2012 - Can a specialty practice be a patient-centered medical home?
04/16/2012 - Coming together, going it alone
Medical group forms without hospital
affiliation
04/16/2012 - The New Face of Health Care: Why Nurses Are in Such High Demand
04/16/2012 - Tenet to pay $43 million in Medicare fraud settlement
04/16/2012 - Costs of many preventive medical exams vary as much as 700%
04/16/2012 - 5 mistakes doctors make when borrowing money
04/16/2012 - Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds
04/16/2012 - Fla. multispecialty doc practice sold
04/16/2012 - Berwick targets waste in healthcare expenditures
04/16/2012 - Next generation of doctors sees gloomy future
04/16/2012 - Blazing a trail Pioneer ACOs test strategies with five pay options
04/16/2012 - Vital Signs by Phone, Then, With a Click, a Doctor’s Appointment
04/16/2012 - Measured enthusiasm from groups for ICD-10 delay
04/09/2012 - Practice management company launches ACO
04/09/2012 - Physician billing company Asterino plans to merge with Doctor Solutions
04/09/2012 - Participation, payments jump in quality reporting programs
04/09/2012 - Hospital mergers, acquisitions expected to maintain quick pace
04/09/2012 - HMS Opens New Primary Care Facility
04/09/2012 - Steep fine sends message on patient data protection
04/09/2012 - Americans Cutting Back on Drugs and Doctor Visits
04/09/2012 - Employers signal near-term cuts to employees’ health benefits
04/09/2012 - Lab tests fell after HIE rollout, researchers say
04/09/2012 - Couple's app keeps doctors connected
04/09/2012 - County health data released
04/09/2012 - Doctor Panels Recommend Fewer Tests for Patients
04/09/2012 - More employers using wellness programs to reduce health care costs: Analysis
04/09/2012 - Ga. cancer centers to pay $3.8 million
04/09/2012 - Doctors In Texas React As Aetna Drops 130 Lone-Star Physicians
04/09/2012 - Senators to CMS: Deliver final doc-payments reporting rule
04/09/2012 - Sense of Peril for Health Law Gives Insurers Pause
04/03/2012 - Everything in medicine is going mobile (HIMSS meeting)
04/03/2012 - More doctors work part time, flexible schedules
04/03/2012 - Empty threat
Hospitals
could see more vacancies as demand for outpatient care grows and
financial pressure builds to curb inpatient admissions
04/03/2012 - Five Mo. doc practices to form medical home
04/03/2012 - Step to the Center
04/03/2012 - 22 physicians to create medical group
04/03/2012 - Academic Built Case for Mandate in Health Care Law
04/03/2012 - Primary care physician shortage looms in Louisville
04/03/2012 - Mississippi proposes tax break to lure doctors
04/03/2012 - Could 2013 be a year of change on Medicare?
04/03/2012 - In Massachusetts, Insurance Mandate Stirs Some Dissent
03/26/2012 - At health-care reform's key agency, no one stays in charge for long
03/26/2012 - Economy leads physician to shutter solo practice, join U.S. Army
03/26/2012 - What's behind more patients avoiding the physician office?
03/26/2012 - Consumers see rare dip in hospital prices
03/26/2012 - Getting Doctors to Think About Costs
03/26/2012 - ACO planned in suburban New York
03/26/2012 - Madison clinic's decision to stop taking new Medicare patients could be start of trend
03/26/2012 - MD On-Line buys MD Technologies
03/26/2012 - Doctors' online practices need improvement
03/26/2012 - Outsourcing tasks could simplify ICD-10 conversion
03/26/2012 - EHR cost debate heats up
03/26/2012 - Medicaid Directors Question Future Of Audit MICs As OIG Slams Program
03/19/2012 - AMGA pushes physician-payment alternatives
03/19/2012 - Healthcare adds 49,000 jobs in February
03/19/2012 - Healthcare groups team to promote PHRs
03/19/2012 - Connecticut lawmakers consider $10 million in aid to attract, retain doctors
03/19/2012 - Why America's Doctors Are Struggling to Make Ends Meet
03/19/2012 - Americans' Views on the Supreme Court Case Mirror Their Views on the Health Reform Law
03/19/2012 - The future of physician-owned hospitals
03/19/2012 - WellPoint's new payment model increases physicians' pay
03/19/2012 - Managing doctor, nurse practitioner turnover rates key to delivery of collaborative care model
03/19/2012 - The Doctor Is Out: Young Talent Is Turning Away From Primary Care
03/12/2012 - To stay fiscally healthy, state's hospitals want fewer patients
To survive the unprecedented challenges coming with federal healthcare reform, California hospitals are upending their bedrock financial model: They are trying to keep some patients out of their beds.
03/12/2012 - Trends in physician office visits shift as money worries affect behavior
A Florida doctor has seen patients in his office with broken wrists or hips. "These people would have generally gone to the emergency department."
03/12/2012 - Determining the Level of Payments in Health Care
03/12/2012 - High health-care costs: It's all in the pricing
There is a simple reason health care in the United States costs more than it does anywhere else: The prices are higher.
03/12/2012 - Report spotlights data-breach costs, concerns
03/12/2012 - Ensign Group company buys Doctors Express
03/12/2012 - Lawmakers probe Prime Healthcare Services' billing practices
03/12/2012 - Hospitals already making big changes ahead of healthcare reforms
03/12/2012 - What Cutting Health Care Costs Looks Like
03/12/2012 - Health IT lawyer decries 'epidemic' of privacy breaches
03/12/2012 - Digital Records May Not Cut Health Costs, Study Cautions
03/12/2012 - Health IT Chief Disputes Study On EHR Testing, Costs
03/12/2012 - Ezra Klein: What the Business Roundtable knows about U.S. health care
healthcare pricing, healthcare business
03/12/2012 - Doctors' pay rises with new patients
02/27/2012 - Insurers think outside the policy
02/27/2012 - MinuteClinic, HCA's TriStar plan affiliation
02/27/2012 - Why the CEO is here to stay
02/27/2012 - Some states taking medical board cash
02/27/2012 - 6 Reasons Savvy Businesses Use Email, Not Social Media. PLUS: 2 Email Tools You Should Know About
02/27/2012 - Giving technology tips to older doctors should be done delicately
02/27/2012 - Remodeling required?
Medical-home demos advance, but
questions persist over performance data
02/27/2012 - Bending the Cost Curve
02/27/2012 - Concierge Medicine For The Poorest
02/27/2012 - Stage 2 requirements would raise bar for providers
02/27/2012 - For Impatient Web Users, an Eye Blink Is Just Too Long to Wait
02/27/2012 - Practice Makes Perfect: Staff training is critical in improving payment collection
02/27/2012 - MedAptus launches new revenue cycle reporting and performance analytics module
02/27/2012 - Calif. hospital, docs plan ACO with Blue Shield
02/27/2012 - Early medical-home results promising but inconclusive: study
02/27/2012 - Physicians fight proposed licensing fee hike
02/27/2012 - A medical facility fitting for healthcare reform: Free standing ED
02/27/2012 - Greater Newport announces affiliation with MemorialCare foundation
02/27/2012 - Cost variations lead to $36B in annual healthcare waste
02/27/2012 - Most Americans like Medicare just the way it is: survey
02/20/2012 - Hospital hiring of physicians picks up steam
02/20/2012 - The Options for Payment Reform in U.S. Health Care
02/20/2012 - Many "mistakes" found in newbie-doctors' resumes
02/20/2012 - What Innovation? Stop Trying So Hard
02/20/2012 - 4 Things That Set Great Companies Apart from the Crowd
02/20/2012 - Getting up to speed Execs detail IT needs, investments required to support an ACO
02/20/2012 - Highmark to link hospitals in western PA
02/20/2012 - Federal investigators take look at Highmark's acquisition plans
02/20/2012 - Why some practices stopped accepting patients' cash
02/20/2012 - More hospitals charge upfront fees for non-urgent care in emergency rooms
02/20/2012 - Plans report healthy profits despite new cost demands
02/20/2012 - HRSA, Labor Department sign health IT training agreement
02/20/2012 - New push to bring overseas patients to South Florida
02/20/2012 - 'Profound change' coming to EHRs: Glaser
02/20/2012 - Rules of the road
02/14/2012 - Young doctors flock toward new specialty in end-of-life care
02/14/2012 - NEJM: How Will ACOs "Keep Score" of Physicians' Pay?
"The way in which physicians are
reimbursed for participation in accountable care organizations is
likely to determine whether they change their current fee-for-service
practices, according to a report published in the
New
England Journal of Medicine.
02/14/2012 - The Future of mHealth: Doctors Use Gadgets to Improve Healthcare
Doctors and nurses are turning to tablets and smartphones to aid their everyday work, as a new generation of medical professionals lean on gadgets to make healthcare more efficient and cost-effective.
02/14/2012 - Aetna accuses NY docs of overcharging patients
02/14/2012 - Health IT leads in jobs recovery
02/14/2012 - Healthcare technology stocks poised for modest growth
02/14/2012 - Kaiser Updates Its Comprehensive Online Database of Medicaid Benefits in the 50 States
The Kaiser Family Foundation's
Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured has updated its Medicaid
Benefits Online Database to include 2010 state-level
data about which benefits are covered by Medicaid programs in the 50
states, the District of Columbia and United States territories.
02/14/2012 - Health-Care Case Tests Supreme Court's Ban on Live Broadcasts
02/14/2012 - New eight-hospital system forms in Pa.
02/02/2012 - CMS to Release Comparative Billing Report on Advanced Diagnostic Imaging
On Thu Feb 16, CMS will release a national provider Comparative Billing Report (CBR) addressing Advanced Diagnostic Imaging.
01/31/2012 - Health Care Is Next Frontier for Big Data
Big Data-the ability to collect, process and interpret
massive amounts of information-is one of today's most important
technological drivers. While companies see it as a way of detecting weak
market signals, one of the biggest potential areas of application for
society is health care.
01/31/2012 - Survey: Physician owners more likely to find EHR implementation difficult
Physicians with an ownership stake in
their practices were more likely than other physicians to think of EHR
implementation as difficult or very difficult, according to the results
of pre- and post-implementation surveys of physicians published Jan. 16
in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
01/31/2012 - Spending growth on physician services sinks to record low
Consumers restrained their health spending in part because
of declining private coverage and greater consumer awareness of health
care costs.
01/31/2012 - Why heart doctors are leaving practice to work for hospitals
Insecurity about falling insurance payments and the impact
of impending health-care changes are driving droves of cardiologists -
among the highest-paid doctors - to leave private practice and become
hospital employees. The doctors are seeking to protect their income and
get relief from the hassles of managing a business, as pressure mounts
to reduce costs and invest in expensive computer systems. Hospitals,
meanwhile, want closer relationships with doctors as changes loom that
will reward efficiency and care coordination both in and out of the
hospital.
01/31/2012 - Doctors Refer More Patients to Specialists
The specialist will see you now - and it's one of the reasons that medical care has become more expensive. In a study published Monday in Archives of Internal Medicine, an academic journal, researchers from Harvard Medical School found that the likelihood that a doctor referred a patient to another doctor, often a specialist, nearly doubled from 1999 to 2009.
01/24/2012 - Putting the Accountability in Accountable Care Organizations: Payment and Quality Measurements (Families USA)
Every year, health care in the United States becomes more expensive.
Yet despite the growth in health care costs, quality has not kept pace.
01/24/2012 - Medicare panel's payment recommendations pit hospitals against doctors (The Hill, Jan. 16, 2012)
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), which advises Congress on
Medicare payments, voted last week to recommend cuts to hospital outpatient
departments that could save the government between $1 billion and $5 billion
over the next five years.
