If your practice offers costly ancillary services not covered by insurance carriers, offering financing plans to patients may help you boost business. continues…
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From Medical Economics magazine, more on ancillaries ...
Sure, some health care systems are “free” … that is, if you don’t count the bribes. continues…
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From Medical Economics magazine, more on government ...
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of the nonprofit consumer group Consumers’ Checkbook that sued the Health and Human Services Department to allow disclosure of specific data about doctors from the Medicare claims database. continues…
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From Medical Economics magazine, more on Medicare/Medicaid ...
In a challenge to laws set to take effect in 2008 which make doctor’s perscribing records private, IMS Health of Norwalk, Conn., Wolters Kluwer Health of Conshohocken, Pa., and Verispan of Yardley, Pa. have filed suit in federal courts in Maine and Vermont. continues…
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From Medical Economics magazine, more on law ...
The Albany Times Union has a sad story about the plight of one rural family doctor, Joseph Lalka, and his painful decision to take in his shingle. continues…
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From Medical Economics magazine, more on family practice ...
A new report from the American Medical Group Association finds that group practices on average lost $119 per physician in 2006 with the biggest losers being in the South. continues…
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From Medical Economics magazine, more on income ...
If you think you made less in 2006 than in the year before even though you worked harder, you may be right. continues…
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From Medical Economics magazine, more on income ...
NJ’s Asbury Park Press profiles Perdue Farms’ on-site health clinics, which provide primary care as well as lab work, ob-gyn and prenatal care to the company’s workers.
An estimated 23 percent of large employers, with at least 1,000 employees, have on-site health clinics according to a 2006-2007 survey by the human resource consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide. Another 6 percent of these large employers plan to add clinics next year.
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From Medical Economics magazine, more on competition ...
Imagine a computerized healthcare system in which insurers, pharmacies, hospitals, retail clinics, and doctors upload clinical information as it’s generated to a patient’s personal health record, or PHR. Then imagine that Google, king of search engines, is somehow at the center of this data network. continues…
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From Medical Economics magazine, more on Internet ...
Fears about violations of patient privacy — a speed bump in the road to electronic health records — contributed to the death of a much ballyhooed regional health information organization, or RHIO, in California last December. continues…
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From Medical Economics magazine, more on technology ...
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