At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Paul Cadorette, CPC, CPC-H-ORTHO, CPC-P-ASC, will give a presentation titled "Key Strategies for Billing and Coding."
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Hospitals in St. Louis-based Ascension Health implement infection prevention practices differently, according to a study in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Many consumers in the U.S. don't understand traditional health insurance plans, according to a Journal of Health Economics study.
The number of physicians paying medical malpractice fees has fallen to the lowest number on record, according to a report from Public Citizen.
Most physicians believe that accountable care organizations will be successful in introducing performance reporting and benchmarking, according to Deloitte's 2013 Survey of U.S. Physicians.
A study published in JAMA Surgery found that 40 percent of participants in a shadowing program expressed interest in pursuing a surgical match, according to a Medpage Today report.
Endocrinologists experienced the largest increase in compensation in 2012, according to the American Medical Group Association's 2013 compensation and financial survey.