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Value-based clinical innovation projects

Pioneering care redesign projects combine evidence-based medicine, workflow redesign and realigned incentives.

    
MGMA's Robert Tennant

Overhauling diagnosis coding  

Moving to the ICD-10 code sets may be the most complex change for the U.S. health care delivery system in decades, requiring massive system and workflow changes, including coordinated actions among medical groups, their vendors and health plans.

MCARE abatement stuck in stalemate

The connection of medical liability premium subsidies to health insurance expansion has led to a political impasse, which could cost Pa. health care providers billions of dollars over the next ten years and severely impair efforts to recruit physicians to the state for years to come.


POS President 
Jon B. Tucker, M.D.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield's proposed conversion 

The MSNJ contends that a for-profit conversion would have negative impacts on reimbursement, premiums and competition.

Editor's Notebook:
Pew reports raise more questions than answers

Commentary:
Corner not turned on malpractice crisis

Medicine & Computers:
Electronic health records in litigation

Medicine & Business:
Choosing your medical practice entity

Medicine & Law:
Medicare's reassignment of payment rules

Personal Finance:
Get your financial advisors to communicate


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