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If third party payers are unwilling to work with physicians, argues C. Richard Schott, M.D., they will have to deal with, and be responsible for, the resultant deterioration in quality and the disruption of access to care that surely will result, not from physician initiated job actions, but from existing market forces, resulting in the inability of a decreasing number of the physicians remaining in this region to meet the medical needs of their subscribers.

The use of electronic medical records has been slowly growing but is not expanding as quickly as many expected. There are several potential reasons for this.

Whatever reluctance your practice may feel, the reality is that you could face real economic challenges if a physician leaves your practice only to open a competing office in your neighborhood.

The regulatory environment is now ripe for hospital-physician ASC joint venture arrangements. A new ruling clarifies how a non-profit health care system can participate in an ancillary for-profit joint venture while maintaining its tax-exempt and public charity status.

The use of electronic medical records has been slowly growing but is not expanding as quickly as many expected. There are several potential reasons for this.

There are many residents who can save over $14,000, but too few who are aware of this option.

Essential components of an effective billing system that can operate on a shoestring budget include equipment needs, personnel training, relationship development and use of computers.

HHS' Office of Inspector General has issued its final "Compliance Program Guidance for Individual and Small Group Physician Practices" to help protect doctors from Medicare Fraud & Abuse prosecution. We offer some guidance on the guidance, in five easy pieces.

Analysis of the first Pennsylvania judicial decision in which a court has determined that due process rights may apply to a physician when that physician is de-selected from an HMO provider panel.

The most common business continuity tool is a funded buy-sell agreement, sometimes referred to as a business will, which is inexpensive to draft and less complicated than other ways of transferring ownership and management of a closely held corporation and can be responsive to changing circumstances.