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Modern Physician
Practice Makes Perfect: Act like an ostrich to help maintain physician compensation levels

By Kenneth Hertz | April 01, 2013

Last June, MGMA-ACMPE released the results of a questionnaire that ranked members' most pressing practice management challenges. In this edition of "Practice Makes Perfect," we'll tackle No. 8 on that list: Maintaining physician compensation levels.
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Fired nurse says hospice falsified records

By San Diego Union-Tribune | February 22, 2013

A federal lawsuit made public this week against San Diego Hospice alleged that the organization actively worked to circumvent Medicare reimbursement guidelines and make patients appear sicker than they really were.
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HCA outlook reflects rise in unpaid hospital bills

By Bloomberg.com | February 06, 2013

HCA Holdings, the largest for-profit U.S. hospital chain, gave an earnings forecast that was lower than analysts’ estimates as recent revenue gains become overshadowed by unpaid patient bills.
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OIG finds widespread Herceptin overcharges

By Joe Carlson | January 21, 2013 | Basic Web

The government's ongoing probe of hospitals and physicians overbilling Medicare for the breast-cancer drug Herceptin found errors in more than three-quarters of all claims that it audited.
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Accretive mulls paring back debt collection practices

By Andrew L. Wang, Crain's Chicago Business | January 18, 2013

Accretive Health, whose alleged strong-arm practices were the target of an investigation by the Minnesota attorney general, is moving to exit the business of collecting severely past-due bills from individual patients.
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More-complex care, not fraud, behind higher ER billing, doc argues

By Andis Robeznieks | December 28, 2012

Fraud isn't at the root of a spike in providers' billing for emergency services, a new opinion piece in the New England Journal of Medicine asserts.
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Accretive cleared by Vermont regulators

By Andrew L. Wang, Crain's Chicago Business | December 11, 2012

Accretive Health did not violate Vermont debt-collection laws, officials in that state have determined after an investigation.
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DataMetrix names Twigg CEO

By Modern Healthcare | December 07, 2012 | Basic Web

DataMetrix, a Salt Lake City-based healthcare audit and data-mining company, named Gary Twigg CEO.
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Md. clinical documentation provider sold to Canadian company

By Modern Healthcare | December 05, 2012 | Basic Web

Salar, a Baltimore-based provider of electronic physician documentation and billing tools, has been purchased by a subsidiary of Toronto-based Constellation Software.
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HMA exec says physicians 'grossly mischaracterized' admissions management

By Jessica Zigmond | December 02, 2012 | Basic Web

Physicians interviewed for a “60 Minutes” segment on HMA's practices “grossly mischaracterized” what goes on at the for-profit hospital chain's facilities, a top HMA exec said.
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