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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

  This is the official CMS definition of the PQRS system: “The Physician Quality Reporting System (Physician Quality Reporting or PQRS) is a  reporting program ...