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.
The Medical Group Management Association has asked CMS to take a “time out” concerning the growing complexity of Stark regulations.
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.
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"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.
An Illinois appeals court has ruled that a percentage-based fee arrangement between a physician group and a medical billing company is invalid, affirming an earlier circuit court decision.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has upheld an injunction preventing a hospital from disciplining one of its physicians after finding that the hospital’s peer-review process leading to the discipline of the physician was performed with malice and repeatedly violated the…
"I would suggest eight hours for ophthalmology, 12 hours for a multi-specialty ASC, and 14 hours for orthopedics," says Tom Mallon, the CEO of Regent Surgical Health.
Congressional Democrats have been pushing curbs on physician-owned hospitals as a way to contain Medicare costs, but lobbyist efforts are carving out exemptions for some facilities, reports the N.Y. Times in a story not very favorable to physician-ownership and specialty…