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Here are the valuation multiple paid and the percentages of respondents that received that multiple for controlling and minority interests in a physician-owned hospital, according to HealthCare Appraisers' Healthcare Transactions 2009 Year in Review.

Here are multiples paid for minority interest physician-investor redemptions and physician-investor buy-ins for 2007-2008, according to HealthCare Appraisers' Healthcare Transactions 2009 Year in Review.

Assuming the Republicans win big in the Nov. 2 Congressional elections, can the healthcare reform law be repealed, defunded or watered down in some way?

Editor's note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in Anesthesia Business Consultants eAlerts, a free electronic newsletter. Sign-up to receive this…

Many orthopedics procedures, especially shoulder and knee surgeries, often require a pain block to manage the patients' pain postoperatively. However, these claims are some of the most commonly denied in ASCs on the first pass, often due to payor issues…

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…

Jeff Blankinship is president & CEO of Surgical Notes, a nationwide provider of medical transcription, coding, electronic medical records and other value-added IT services for ASCs.

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With an automatic 21.2 percent Medicare fee cut looming next Monday, the AMA is showing members how to opt out of Medicare's set reimbursements and become a "non-participating" physician, according to a report on the AMA Web site.

Here is a summary of specific changes to the Senate health reform bill, as found in the 383-page Manager's Amendment that was added to the bill just before Senate began voting on it.