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5010 Logjam Means No Pay for Physicians

Physicians are flooding their advocacy groups with complaints about cash flow problems as they seek deadline delays for a mandatory transition toward HIPAA 5010 electronic transactions.

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Medicare Physician Payment Rule Factors in GPCI

HCPro Staff for HealthLeaders Media, February 10, 2012

Feds Release Final Rules on Health Plan Language

Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, February 10, 2012

UnitedHealth will tie doctors' payments to quality of care

Bloomberg / BusinessWeek, February 10, 2012

What to do with an empty hospital?

Buffalo News, February 10, 2012

Opinion: Why we need more minority doctors

WBUR, February 10, 2012

The future of mHealth: Healthcare apps to lower insurance costs

Forbes, February 10, 2012

UnitedHealth revamps fees

Reuters, February 9, 2012

Some physicians not always honest with patients

Health Affairs Blog, February 9, 2012

Expect more insurance drama in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 9, 2012

Getting to the Heart of Cardiology Alignment

Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, February 9, 2012

Jackson Health System, SEIU agree on $52M in concessions

The Miami Herald, February 8, 2012

Doctor discipline: MN fails to offer full disclosure

Star Tribune, February 8, 2012

Rethinking hospital readmissions

Marketplace / American Public Media, February 8, 2012

Fake PA blames hospital for issuing badge

WESH, February 8, 2012

HCA profit tops expectations; shares rise

Reuters, February 7, 2012

Medicaid changes challenge TX hospitals to do things differently

Houston Chronicle, February 7, 2012

Why do cardiologists often pass up safe, low-tech treatments for chest pain?

The Washington Post, February 7, 2012

NY eyes tough reporting system for dispensing of prescription drugs

Buffalo News, February 6, 2012

TX prisons consider switch to local hospitals for convict care

The American-Statesman, February 6, 2012

Penn Cancer Center, in lawsuit, says a doctor appropriated a discovery

The New York Times, February 6, 2012

Keeping Readmission Rates Low with Treatment Guidelines

Hospitals are developing treatment guidelines with the aim of reducing readmissions. At one facility, guidelines are both diagnosis-based and procedure-based, and are created by an interdisciplinary team with a physician champion.

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