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Tufts Medical, Blue Cross negotiations break down
The breakdown in contract talks between Boston’s Tufts Medical Center physicians and Blue Cross and Blue Shield...
Grim debt prognosis at health nonprofits
The credit crisis is inflicting pain on the country's already troubled nonprofit hospitals and health systems. Like...
Rule shields health workers who withhold care based on beliefs
The Bush administration has granted sweeping new protections to health workers who refuse to provide care that violates...
Geography has role in Medicare cancer coverage
CyberKnife is a new but fast-growing radiation treatment for prostate cancer, and the chief selling point is that...
From Medicare, a push against paper
Starting in January, doctors who e-prescribe can get bonus pay from Medicare, but persuading U.S. doctors to ditch...
Magazine: Model for Success
Running a medical group has never been more complex. But many practices have found ways to not only survive—but...
Orange County, CA, supervisors wrangle over doctors’ funding
Orange County (CA) Board of Supervisors Chairman John Moorlach sought to withhold nearly $54,000 in funding from the...
Paying doctors to ignore patients
This New York Times op-ed offers an analysis of the flaws in our current fee-for-service reimbursement system by...
Specialty Interests
Just when the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee advised Congress to find a way to increase payments to PCPs, their...
Dispute puts some Humana patients in a bind
When a doctors’ organization and Louisville, KY-based insurere Humana Inc. could not agree on a new contract...