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By: Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media, June 13, 2011
Physician-owned distributorships have come under the scrutiny of the Senate Finance Committee and prompted a bipartisan group of senators to urge the Office of Inspector General to determine "how these arrangements square with federal law."
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By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, June 13, 2011
San Diego-based Scripps Health has entered a partnership with North American Medical Management to build an integrated care network with 14 physician groups. It is expected to function much like an accountable care organization.
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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, June 13, 2011
Primary care physicians' associations in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down a new law that they say hinders them from talking about firearms hazards with patients.
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By: Eric Nielsen, MD, and James Smith, MBA, FACHE, The Camden Group, for HealthLeaders Media, June 9, 2011
Physicians are naturally and appropriately skeptical of the new arrangements that will impact not only how they get compensated, but also how they care for their patients. Here are 10 of their most frequently asked questions.
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By: Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media, June 13, 2011
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is appealing a ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by New York's Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers' over investments made by Morgan Stanley.
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By: Gordon Mountford, for HealthLeaders Media, June 10, 2011
A shared concern has begun to emerge from accountable care organization optimists and skeptics alike: that getting too deep into the conversations around ACOs may be more of a distraction than their organizations can afford.
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By: Philip Betbeze, for HealthLeaders Media, June 10, 2011
Expecting patients to shop for discount cancer treatments and bargain heart procedures is, of course, a non-starter. But identifying favorable pricing for out-of-pocket healthcare services by mining employers' claims data may be a reasonable way to jumpstart consumer involvement in reducing costs.
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By: June 13, 2011
Date: August 16, 2011
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By: June 13, 2011
Date: June 23, 2011
What: Get in-the-trenches management tools and techniques to grow your ED's bottom line. Learn how Heartland Health revamped processes and increased revenue from $15 million to $33.5 million and turned its ED into a profit center with a 40% margin.
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