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The AMA has issued its first report card on health insurers with a focus on determining the timeliness, transparency and accuracy of claims processing by payors.

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The Joint Commission's board of commissioners approved the continued engagement of its implementation task force on the revision of medical staff standard MS.1.20. The Board also suspended the planned July 2009 implementation date for the current revised standard.

A Pennsylvania Insurance Department hearing on the proposed merger between Independence Blue Cross and Highmark "took an unexpected twist," and "was all about how much the Insurance Department's consultants were being paid ? and, more surprising, who was paying them,"…

The Senate voted 54-39 to block a Medicare package bill Sen. Max Baucus (D-N.D.) introduced last week that proposed to raise physician payments 1.1 percent instead of slashing them 10.6 percent, as had been slated for next month.

"More surgeries are shifting from hospitals to outpatient surgical centers, a trend that is starting to generate more medical malpractice litigation," the National Law Journal reports in an article that quotes Scott Becker, JD, CPA.

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