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Despite a 3.2% increase in membership, the American Medical Association's operating profit dropped by nearly 33% last year, which the organization's annual report said was due in a large part to “a material decline” in advertising revenue and coding book sales.
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As the deadline nears for Medicare's first accountable care organizations to decide whether they will continue with the initiative, at least one is debating whether to leave.
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Congressional Budget Office analysts sharply lowered their projections for the next decade's outlays on Medicare, Medicaid and covering the uninsured under the healthcare reform law.
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Regarding “Leap to ICD-11 not recommended: AMA board”: Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. It is past time to acknowledge the real costs and challenges of electronic documentation and the financial and physical toll our government has placed...
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Two North Carolina hospitals recently reported operating losses that they say are attributable in part to projected revenue that has been delayed related to problems rolling out their version of the Epic EHR system, particularly with billing, procedure coding and collections.
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The Obama administration issued the rules Monday to carry out a major hospital Medicaid cut, even as it is trying to delay the reduction scheduled to begin in five months.
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Electronic health systems developer Allscripts Healthcare Solutions recorded a net loss of $11.6 million in its first full quarter under new leadership, the company reported after the markets closed Thursday.
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The American Medical Association is reporting that its membership grew by 3.2% last year to 224,503, nudging its ranks almost back to the size it enjoyed prior to its endorsement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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In terms of revenue and public health needs, annual youth physicals required for sports participation or summer camp attendance may not appear large on the healthcare system's big-picture radar, but they appear to be a growing sore point between primary-care physicians and retailers operating nurse...
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A controversial new proposal from the Urban Institute to help curb deficit spending by capping the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health coverage could save hundreds of millions of dollars annually, but skeptics say the savings would come at the expense of dramatically altering the health...
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