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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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,... FULL STORY »
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... FULL STORY »
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... FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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