By Harvey B. Lefton, MD The sustainable growth rate (SGR) is the method that Medicare uses to calculate payments for physician services. It was devised ...
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By Brad Broker “Missed, wrong, and delayed diagnoses have been underappreciated by internal peer review, autopsy reports, and examination of malpractice claims.” That is according ...
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In an effort to reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics, the American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday updated its guidelines for how physicians should diagnose and ...
Read More »Update On The HIPAA Privacy And Security Final Rule
By Jared Rhoads On January 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released the long-awaited final rule laying out the privacy ...
Read More »TIME’s Best Cover Story Ever: Why are the medical bills so high?
By Alan Lyndon TIME magazine has dedicated its current issue to just one article: “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us.” This article, written ...
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Seventeen leading medical specialty societies have identified specific tests, procedures or medication therapies they say are commonly ordered, but which are not always necessary—and could ...
Read More »Doctors, Hospitals Clamp Down On Dangerous Early Elective Deliveries
By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News For decades, doctors have been warned about the dangers of delivering babies early without a medical reason. But the practice ...
Read More »Doctors: These 2013 Tax Changes May Affect Your Practice
By David B. Mandell, JD, MBA and Carole Foos, CPA As a physician, do you realize that, after the new tax increases for 2013 — between ...
Read More »How Healthcare Providers Can Prepare for Cybersecurity Attacks and Meet HIPAA Requirements
By Tony Jeffs According to a recent study performed by the Ponemon Institute, nine out of 10 hospitals in the United States have suffered from ...
Read More »Infographic for Doctors: How to Win the PQRS Game
This is the official CMS definition of the PQRS system: “The Physician Quality Reporting System (Physician Quality Reporting or PQRS) is a reporting program ...
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