The Obama Health Plan has far reaching implications, not only for patients but for clinical providers alike. What does this all mean? Well, first let's start with the insurance companies themselves. Under the current plan they must use a minimum…
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The American Medical Association has been in existence for 162 years now, making it the oldest trade association in the nation, but this organization doesn't have a clue anymore as to what a trade association is about.
While nearly nine of 10 healthcare opinion leaders believe the new health reform law will successfully expand access to affordable health insurance coverage, only one-third believe it would begin to rein in costs and not add to the federal budget…
Several healthcare groups have joined to put together two guides about personal health records — one for clinicians and one for consumers, according to a news release. The groups include the Medical Group Management Association, the American College of Physicians,…
The U.S. Justice Department has joined a False Claims Act lawsuit against Satilla Regional Medical Center, in Waycross, Ga., and Najam Azmat, MD, that alleges they submitted claims for substandard and unnecessary services to Medicare and Medicaid, according to a…
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Compensation for primary care and specialty care physician groups in academic practice increased 2.93 percent and 2.43 percent respectively in 2009, according to a new MGMA survey.
The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the state's 2005 tort reform law in two separate rulings, according to a report by AHA News Now.
We see a lot of medical facilities who use Web e-mail providers (Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Comcast, etc.) to transmit EPHI (electronic protected health information) such as images, dictation, transcription, etc. While the HIPAA Security Rule doesn't explicitly state the…
Several groups of physicians in North Carolina's Triad area have submitted three proposals for new outpatient surgery centers, which will compete for approval by the state, according to a report in The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area.
CMS has approved Colorado's Medicaid eligibility expansion program that requires charging Colorado hospitals $600 million in fees to access matching federal Medicaid funds, according to a report by the Denver Post.