Acting New Jersey Gov. Stephen M. Sweeney recently signed into law a bill that would require health insurance carriers in the state to honor a patient's assignment of benefits to his or her healthcare provider, according to the Medical Society…
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Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services released proposed meaningful use criteria clarifying standards that hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers must meet in order to be eligible for healthcare IT funding under the HITECH Act. ASCs…
To demonstrate the return on investment on evidence-based design elements, the Center for Health Design in 2004 imagined a hospital that would include key features of recently built or redesigned facilities. Numerous research studies have shown that these design elements…
Medicare pays physicians for medical direction of nurse anesthetists at 50 percent of the reimbursement they would receive if they performed the work alone. CMS says physicians will be paid for medical direction of two to four concurrent cases provided…
The INSERM research group at the Institute of Research against Digestive Cancer used a new, in vivo microscopic imaging technology to develop a technique that may help improve outcomes of surgery to remove pancreatic cancer, according to a news release…
Amidst the legislative chaos created by the implosion of health reform following this week's Massachusetts election, physician groups are getting anxious that Congress won't perform its usual eleventh-hour fix of the automatic Medicare physician fee cut.
One example of the Cleveland Clinic's increasing use of digital technology is the electronic reminders it sends to anesthesiologists to carry out a patient safety task, according to Marc Harrison, MD, chief medical operations officer at the clinic.
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…
A difficult economic climate has led many healthcare providers, including ASCs and hospitals, to make significant efforts to cut costs and improve revenues. Although providers have done well in adapting to this climate, some factors still have made an impact…
Here is the median compensation for orthopedic surgeons for 2005-2008, according to the AMGA 2009 Medical Group Compensation and Financial Survey.