Practice Management
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Physician Compare: Expanded data cause concern
Physician associations are voicing frustration about the public release of 2014 quality scores on CMS’s Physician Compare website. The potentially...
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Senate report underscores frustration about hepatits C drug prices
After an 18-month analysis, a recent Senate investigation found that a pharmaceutical company pursued a marketing strategy and final wholesale...
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AMA expands med schools in education consortium
Winning programs cover concepts such as care coordination in accountable care organizations, advanced simulation and telemedicine technologies,...
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CMS delays Stage 3 meaningful use
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Hospital care unaffected by quality payments, GAO finds
Medicare’s quality incentive program for hospitals, which provides bonuses and penalties based on performance, has not led to demonstrated...
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Hospital care unaffected by quality payments, GAO finds
Medicare’s quality incentive program for hospitals, which provides bonuses and penalties based on performance, has not led to demonstrated...
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Charging patients for electronic health records: advice for providers
A draft of proposals by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology aims to help providers determine how much to...
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AGA proposes MOC overhaul
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G-APP: A more meaningful pathway than MOC
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MedPAC to look at physician prescribing tools as a way to control drug spending
Physician prescribing patterns and utilization may be part of the right way to use physician prescribing patterns as leverage in price...