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- Surgeons Give Six Reasons Why Senate Reform Plan Will Worsen Care
The American College of Surgeons, a group representing 200,000 doctors in 20 surgical specialties, says it will fight health reform as proposed by the Senate Finance Committee, because "it will make an already-flawed system worse" in six ways.
- Doc-owned Hospitals: DOJ Settlement Shows Problems with Corporate Hospital Chains
Physician-owned hospitals today launched a media counteroffensive with news that the Department of Justice reached a $27.5 million settlement with for-profit Universal Health Services and its subsidiaries for violations of the anti-kickback and false claims laws at the corporation's hospitals in McAllen, TX.
- Partnership Tests Value of EMRs
The CDC and GE Healthcare's announcement that they are partnering to monitor H1N1 and seasonal influenza activity may be just the opportunity needed to generate widespread support of EHRs from the public.
- 21% Pay Cut May Force Physicians To Stop Seeing Medicare Patients
It's a threat made many times before. Large numbers of doctors will stop accepting new Medicare patients, and may scale back their existing Medicare patient roster, if a 21% Medicare pay cut goes through as scheduled in January. This time more than ever, physicians say they're serious.
- Which Patient Gets into the OR First?
Contributors offer a new method for prioritizing urgent and emergent surgical cases based on a case study at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, GA.
- Cutting Costs by Profiling Physicians
Policymakers are trying to address how physicians use resources, yet most of the data that drives policy decisions and healthcare research measures how regions use resources.
Physician Practice Blog
The LeadTime blog, from HealthLeaders Media Editor-in-Chief Jim Molpus, finds the best ideas in business leadership and brings that discussion to healthcare. Politics, economics, management theory and quality improvement are all fair game for analysis and comment.
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Healthcare Reform in the Wind
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Spotlight
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Physician Entrepreneurs Series
For business and marketing strategies to grow your practice and stay ahead of the competition, look to the Physician Entrepreneurs library. This growing series of practical and informative books from HealthLeaders Media includes:
- Physician Entrepreneurs: The Quality Patient Experience
- Physician Entrepreneurs: Going Retail
- Physician Entrepreneurs Marketing Toolkit
- Physician Entrepreneurs: Strength in Numbers