Roughly 56 percent of hospitals have a physician compensation governance structure, and that number is expected to rise as more physicians become hospital employees, according to a survey from consulting and compensation firm Yaffe & Company (pdf).
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CMS released the stage 2 final rule for meaningful use in August 2012. For hospitals that started the meaningful use process in 2011, they will not be required to begin reporting against the stage 2 requirements until July 1, 2014.…
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At the 19th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Larry D. Taylor, President and CEO of Practice Partners in Healthcare, and Sean McNally, CEO of Moore Clinic will give a presentation titled "Key Relationships Between ASCs & Hospitals."
Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD, chairman of the American Society for Interventional Pain Physicians, was recently featured in an Every Day Health report discussing the recent fungal meningitis outbreak from contaminated steroid injections from a compounding pharmacy.
A new study published in Physical Therapy shows negative back pain beliefs associated with disability in adults with low back pain, according to a Physical Therapy Products report.
Three physicians and health policy directors with Physicians for a National Health Program conducted a study on how Medicare pays private insurers, also known as Medicare Advantage plans, and they identified overpayments totaling $282.6 billion since 1985.
James Marvel, MD, will be honored at the Arthritis Foundation's third annual Halloween Bone Bash on Oct. 26, according to a Cape Gazette report.
Brian R. Gantwerker, MD, of The Craniospinal Center of Los Angeles, currently uses minimally invasive spine techniques with patients and has seen the clinical and economic value of these less invasive procedures.
More orthopedic and spine procedures are now able to move into the outpatient surgery center setting. Ambulatory surgery centers across the country are looking to bring these high acuity cases in and courting orthopedic surgeons who may be future partners.