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A Surprising Place to Find Anti-Kickback Rules

Some aspects of EHRs, telemedicine might technically be illegal

Prior Authorization Still a 'Pain Point' for Providers

Multiple healthcare groups are working on the problem

CMS to Offer Billing Code for Heart Failure Specialists

Should eliminate denials for appearance of double-billing

Time to Divorce USPSTF Statements from Coverage Decisions?

First-dollar payment mandate has rob-Peter, pay-Paul consequence

How Do Doctors Spend Their Days?

The answer may shock you, says Roy Benaroch, MD

For Each Hour of Clinical Time, Docs Spend 2 on Desk Work

Time-and-motion study of 57 doctors in ambulatory settings

Medicaid Boom Turns to Bust for Tennessee Docs

Lack of certification triggers payback requirement

301 People Charged With $900 Million in False Medicare Billings

Largest sweep since government fraud team began in 2007

AMA Blasts Medicare Part B Drug Price Plan

Votes to ask CMS to withdraw proposal

The Perils of 'Affordable' Health Insurance Plans

What happens when patients need emergency care?

Medicare Pay Equity: How GPCI Kings and Queens Snared a Win

Rural pay rates don't go far in the not-so-big city

MitraClip Billing Checklist Released

Guide describes code modifiers and when to use them

Medicare Covers Watchman Device, Drops Some Proposed Limits

Agency apparently moved by objections to draft coverage decision

Registry Underway for Watchman CMS Coverage

But who to include and how to follow them are still fluid issues

Obesity Groups Say States Denying Bariatric Surgery Violate ACA

Discrimination complaint calls on HHS to require bariatric surgery coverage

Whistleblower Doctor Warns About Hospitals Hiring Physicians

Florida chain agrees to pay $70 million for "improper relationships"

Primary Care: Medicare's 'Wellness Visit' Money Goes Unclaimed

Launched with great fanfare, wellness codes leave docs frustrated

The Birth and Increasingly Troubled Life of Medicare

Fears of "socialized medicine" swept aside, but cost concerns eventually overtake program.

AMA Wants 2-Years of Grace for ICD-10 Errors

With time running out, AMA acts to protect physician payment

ICD-10: AMA Considers Grace Period to 'Save Docs'

No easy choices for AMA as it mulls next steps

Is Your Employer Making You Liable for False Claims?

A physician says her employer was upcoding her bills without her consent

Op-Ed: How to Rein In Out-of-Control Healthcare Costs

We all know the medical bill horror stories, but now we have to act on them.

Teamwork Cuts In-Hospital Observation Time

Lengths of stay cut substantially at one hospital chain.

The Hospital Leader: An Interview With Toronto's Adina Weinerman, MD

What strategies can streamline code status documentation?

10 Questions: Mary Norine Walsh, MD

"The waste will continue until the method of reimbursement changes."

Sinking Pediatric Practice Afloat After 口袋女优 Profile

Sometimes an article is worth $97,000 (in back pay).

The Happy PCP: $400K/Yr and Home in Time for Dinner

Primary care doc earns a specialist's income without working overtime.

Excerpt From 'Being Mortal ... '

Ivan Ilyich isn't as foreign to today's medicine as we imagine.

Doctor's Memoir Exposes Dark Side of Medicine

Sandeep Jauhar puts his life on stark display to illustrate harmful financial intrusions into medicine in his newest book.

CardioBuzz: Toward the $500 an Hour Physician

In this guest blog, Mark Jay Zucker, MD, JD, an attorney and transplant cardiologist at Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School in Newark, explains why he thinks it's time to talk money.

Groups Want Gay Diagnoses Out of ICD-11

A WHO working group has recommended that diagnostic codes referencing homosexuality in ICD-10 be dropped from the forthcoming 11th edition, echoing policies of the leading U.S. psychiatry and psychology societies.

AMA Agrees to Recharge Advocacy

CHICAGO -- The AMA will bolster their political advocacy efforts, recognize presurgical transgender birth certificates, and support insurance to cover young pregnant women and newborns, their House of Delegates voted here.

Lethal Injections, MOC, and E-Cigs on AMA Agenda

The American Medical Association is being asked to strengthen its ethical stance on physician participation in execution by extending its ban on doctors participating to include all health professionals.

Top 5 Reasons Why Internists Are Sued

Not properly diagnosing a condition and nonmedical errors such as equipment failure accounted for more than half of the malpractice lawsuits against internists, a study found.

How To Get Medicare To Cover A Spa Trip

Good news for doctors who think their patients need a trip to the spa: Medicare will reimburse, with only two catches.

ICD-10 Follies: Watch Where You're Walking

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5 Ways Doctors Can Use Data Analytics

Data analytics takes claims data, a providers' electronic health record, and any of piece of information available to help physicians become more aware of the patients they're treating. Here are five ways the technology can help meet payers' demands for higher-quality, higher-value care.

ICD-10 Follies: Struck by an Orca

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ICD-10 Follies: The Birds

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Can You Get Paid For Prescribing Exercise?

How do doctors get reimbursed when they prescribe exercise? We asked Jordan Metzl, MD, author of the new book, "Exercise Cure."

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