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Providers protest rule putting them at financial risk if patients don't pay premiums
By Jonathan Block | August 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Provider groups say a CMS rule interpreting the healthcare reform law that gives consumers a grace period for unpaid health insurance premiums will put them at significant risk of delivering services for which they won't get paid.
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Calif. docs fighting legislative battles on scope of practice
By Andis Robeznieks | August 13, 2013
As healthcare reform expands coverage, nonphysician providers are seeking to expand their portfolio of licensed services and are facing intense opposition from doctors to their efforts.
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Joseph Powell, former CEO of Baptist Memorial Health Care, dies
By Ashok Selvam | August 13, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Joseph Powell, the longtime president and CEO at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. in Memphis, has died at 86.
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Telemedicine helps doctors beam into rural hospitals, treat newborns
By Brush (Colo.) News-Tribune | August 13, 2013
A premature baby born at high altitude faces challenges uncommon among newborns in Denver that often can't be treated by rural physicians. But expanded technology is helping beam the expertise of neonatal specialists in the city into critical-care situations at 33 remote hospitals in Colorado,...
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Practice Makes Perfect: 3 steps to prepare for reimbursement models that place a greater share of financial risk on the practice
By Joan Hablutzel | August 13, 2013
In 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. 2 on that list: Preparing for reimbursement models that place a...
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Pa. overcharged doctors for insurance fund, court says
By Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) | August 13, 2013
A state court has ruled in favor of healthcare providers who say Pennsylvania officials made them pay too much money into a medical malpractice insurance fund. The Commonwealth Court ruled the state was wrong to require doctors and other providers to contribute to a reserve when the fund carried...
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Obamacare is forcing physicians to change
By Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) | August 13, 2013
With the main provisions of the Affordable Care Act—the most sweeping changes in the nation's healthcare system since the passage of Medicare in 1965—taking effect in just under five months, family physicians are sweating out the slow rollout of the law's regulations.
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AMA to close news magazine
By Andrew L. Wang, Crain's Chicago Business | August 12, 2013
The American Medical Association, the country's largest professional organization for physicians, is shutting down the news magazine it has published for 55 years.
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Reform Update: AMA blasts new Medicare physician fee schedule, defends RUC
By Andis Robeznieks | August 12, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The AMA has issued a strong criticism of the proposed 2014 Medicare physician-fee schedule, and also fired back against attacks on its Medicare physician payment advisory panel.
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Calif. seeks culturally sensitive healthcare workers
By Sacramento (Calif.) Bee | August 12, 2013
In California, with its many underserved ethnic populations, the need for a multicultural health care workforce will be particularly great, as uninsured people sign up for health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act, experts say.
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