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Reimbursement trends can impact surgery centers significantly, depending on their specialty mix and their dependence on particular payors. Eric Woollen, vice president of managed care for Practice Partners in Healthcare, discusses 10 trends that may impact payor reimbursement and contracting…

A NPR-Thomson Reuters Health Poll found 49.7 percent of the U.S. population has used narcotic painkillers, according to an NPR report.

Currently, Medicare physician pay cuts of 27.4 percent will go into effect Jan. 1, 2012, unless Congress intervenes, and roughly 9 percent of medical groups would cease treating Medicare patients if the cuts went through, according to an American Medical…

Thomas A. Warrington, Jr., AVA, senior manager, and Jennifer Brunkow, ASA, CPA/ABV/CFF, senior analyst with VMG Health, point to several implications — intended and unintended — in the CMS bundled payment pilot program.

Ultrasound technology is an emerging technology for pain management and can be used in both diagnostic and procedural applications. Michael Gofeld, MD, University of Washington assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and the Department of Neurological…

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