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In CO, a tale of two hospitals
Aspen Valley Hospital will give its employees an average pay increase of 2.4% this month, while the Vail Valley...
Opinion: Why Google Health really failed: It's about the money
As reported on TechCrunch, Google shut down its medical records and health data platform. Since then, there's been a...
HHS Unveils Medical Loss Ratio Regulations
Medical loss ratio regulations issued Monday will require health insurers in 2011 to spend between 80% - 85% of...
EHR, Operating Cost Hikes Challenge Practice Managers
Rising operating costs, managing finances amid Medicare reimbursement shifts, and installing electronic health records...
Doctors face fiscal squeeze for treatment
As pills and capsules improve life for some cancer patients, they are sapping the finances of many cancer doctors. For...
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...
Profit in Confusion
Reader David E. Rogers, MD, a physician in McKinney, TX, sent me a pithy observation after reading my HealthLeaders...
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...

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