There were 9,539 physicians who opted out of Medicare in 2012, however there were still 685,000 physicians enrolled to participate in Medicare last year, according to an article The Wall Street Journal.
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In 2012, around 13 percent of the gross dollar volume of all patient payments was made online, according to an Instamed report "Trends in Healthcare Payments Annual Report: 2012."
Timothy Meakem, MD, the medical director of ProVation Medical, recently gave a webinar presentation titled "Utilizing Procedure Documentation to Overcome the Challenges of ICD-10 and RAC." ProVation Medical is a Wolters Kluwer Health documentation and clinical decision support solutions company…
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Douglas Prochnow is a partner with the Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP law firm in Chicago and largely represents clients in healthcare and financial disputes. In 2010, Mr. Prochnow tried and obtained a nearly $3 million verdict for Chicago-based surgical center…
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The Medical Group Management Association is urging CMS to conduct end-to-end testing with physician practices and external partners before ICD-10 debuts in 2014, according to a MedPage Today report.
A report released Wednesday put a definitive conclusion on Medicare and commercial healthcare spending from the IOM, saying healthcare decisions are made at the local level and not by geographic areas defined by Congress. The Institute of Medicine said Medicare…
Irvine, Calif.-based Kareo cloud-based medical software provider has acquired Las Vegas-based ECCO Health, a medical billing solutions company.
Illinois-based Advocate Health Care claimed the titled of "Most Wired" from a Hospitals and Health Networks magazine survey for the 11th straight year, according to a Health Tech Zone report.
Dallas-based Surgery Center Network is hosting a roundtable focus group bringing together leading third-party administrators from around the country to discuss the health insurance industry's expectations of a surgery network, according to a company news release.