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CMS Proposes 3 Percent Increase for Outpatient Services, Adding 9 Procedures to ASC List

Written by Stephanie Wasek
Thursday, 03 July 2008
CMS has issued a proposed rule that will update payment rates for calendar year 2009 and aims to improve quality of services provided in HOPDs and ASCs by paying based on quality reporting.
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Humana to Acquire Florida's Metcare Health Plans

Written by Staff
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
Humana has announced that is has signed an agreement to purchase Metcare Health Plans, a subsidiary of West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Metropolitan Health Networks, for an estimated $14 million.
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Recruiting, Retaining Physicians Requiring More Creativity

Written by Stephanie Wasek
Sunday, 29 June 2008
The U.S. population continues to grow faster than the physician workforce, making it more important than for physician groups to recruit — and do their best to retain — doctors, according to the 2007 Retention Survey from the American Medical Group Association and Cejka Search, which conducted the survey of 43 physician groups representing 14,705 physicians.
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Average Salaries for Top Recruited Specialties

Written by Stephanie Wasek
Friday, 27 June 2008
Orthopedic surgeons are offered the highest average base salaries by hospitals and others recruiting physicians, according to a new report from Merritt, Hawkins and Associates, a physician recruiting firm. The "2008 Review of Physician and CRNA Recruiting Incentives" covers average salaries for its top 20 recruited specialties as well as other recruitment incentives.
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MarCap Acquisition by Tygris Completed

Written by Staff
Friday, 27 June 2008
Tygris Commercial Finance Group, a recently formed commercial finance company, has completed its acquisition of substantially all of the assets and business of MarCap, a Chicago-based middle market healthcare equipment finance company. MarCap joins Tygris Asset Finance, Tygris's middle market equipment leasing and asset finance business led by Laird Boulden, and will continue to operate under the MarCap brand.
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