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By Daniel M. Bernick,, Esq., M.B.A. In our personal lives we are accustomed to signing contracts full of “fine print” and “legalese”: technical legal language ...

By Jonathan Teich, M.D. Physicians can do much to facilitate the selection and adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and e-prescribing systems, including clinical decision support (CDS) ...

Bill Clinton made an effort, albeit unsuccessful, to advance his healthcare reform agenda.  George W. Bush didn’t get very far, either.  Now, after outlining plans ...

Central to the nation’s health care reform agenda is the principle of value-based reform – restructuring provider payment incentives to control volume growth and to ...

Meeting the criteria involves more than just the care of the clinical condition of the resident. It involves every level of service delivery in the facility, including the physician.

The physician’s knowledge and ability to document a history and physical will directly determine successful reimbursement for services rendered.

Weighing the natural diminishment of vision, hearing, mobility, reaction time, etc., plus many diseases of the elderly against the importance of driver’s license to the patient such as independence always creates a difficult dilemma for practicing physicians.

If you’re looking for a smart way to reduce investment volatility while still retaining profit potential, then consider the advantages of asset allocation.

Physicians are considered competitors, so when these “competitors” get together to discuss how they will work together against a managed care company, this is considered by regulators to be a violation of the Sherman Act.

Physicians aren’t banks, lenders or credit card companies, so why is this their problem? Doesn’t HIPAA provide enough privacy protection for patients? Many experts thought so, until some FTC attorneys said otherwise.