Although the HealthCare.gov user experience has improved significantly since October, there's no ignoring the fact that the federal health exchange site's launch was "flawed and unacceptable," HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote today in a blog post.
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Nearly half of hospital executives — 46 percent — have no plans to form an accountable care organization or implement a similar model in the near future, according to a recent survey conducted by Purdue Healthcare Advisors.
On Friday, CMS extended the deadline for meaningful use stage 2 attestation by one year, through 2016, with plans to begin stage 3 in 2017. According to a CMS blog post, the delay is partially in response to input from…
CMS has extended the deadline for physician-owned hospitals to report ownership and investment information as required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to March 1, 2014.
Vincent C. Traynelis, MD, is the director of the neurosurgery spine service at Rush University Medical Center, as well as vice chairperson and professor of the department of neurosurgery. He is a past president of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons…
During hiring interviews, questions should be structured to provide insight into the prospective physician, rather than to encourage "canned" responses, according to a YO Info report, the American Academy of Ophthalmology's newsletter for young ophthalmologists.
Medscape has published a list of 2014 deadlines that providers need to know and prepare for.
Here are 13 statistics on the amount and length of patient interactions with orthopedic surgeons, according to the Medscape Orthopedists Compensation Report 2013.
Physician employment and quasi-employment transactions were among the most frequent types of hospital-physician integration activities in 2011 and 2012, according to the HealthCare Appraisers 2013 report.
A majority of physicians report that none or little of their pay is tied to productivity, according to 2013 Physician Compensation Survey released by Physicians Practice.