Congressional Democrats are ready to scrap a proposed five-year Medicare physician fee fix, meaning that Congress is back to passing month-by-month patches to keep a looming 21.3 percent fee cut from going into effect, according to a report by Politico.
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In a tenuous economy with declining reimbursements, many ASCs are simply hunkering down to see how the healthcare reform landscape will shape up before making any bold moves. Still, says Joyce Deno, chief operations officer for the Eastern Region of…
Kimberly-Clark Health Care has launched a campaign and new website to help consumers and providers prevent and reduce the risk of healthcare-associated infections, also known as hospital-acquired infections.
Bonnie Brady, RN, the administrator of Specialty Surgical Center in Sparta, N.J., shares five tips for reducing costs at an ASC. Ms. Brady has been with Specialty Surgical Center, a multispecialty, two-OR ASC, since May 2008. Since she arrived, the…
Concerned about the public's lingering doubts about health reform, the White House has speeded up implementation of several provisions in hopes of turning doubters into believers, according to a report by Politico.
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San Ramon, Calif.-based Hill Physicians Medical Group, which represents around 3,000 physicians in Northern California, reported nearly $4.7 million in net income for 2009 on $419 million in revenue, according to a report in the Sacramento Business Journal.
Here are the median daily on-call compensation rates for independent and hospital-employed physicians by specialty, according to the MGMA's Medical Directorship and On-Call Compensation Survey 2010 Report, Based on 2009 Data.
Chicago Public Schools will open the city's first high school focused on educating students for future careers in healthcare, according to a report by Crain's Chicago Business.
Orthopedic surgeon William R. Martin III, MD, has been named the new medical director of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, effective June 1, according to an AAOS news release.
1. Orthopedics. Rising ASC reimbursement for orthopedic surgery is transforming a sometimes break-even field into a money-making one, says William G. Southwick, president and CEO of HealthMark Partners in Nashville. For example, shoulder surgery used to be so underfunded it…