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In a study surely destined to be attached to many a school late excuse, researchers have linked longer sleep cycles to lower body mass index in teenagers.
The American College of Physicians and the Federation of State Medical Boards have some suggestions for your online doctor-patient relationships online, and they’re fairly restrictive.
Cuts to physician reimbursement, lower meaningful use incentive payments and reduced payments for high-cost drugs are part of the sequester that has no end in sight. Part B News wants to know how physician practices are dealing with those changes.
We often wonder if health care fraudsters are … normal. Consider Helene Michel, the owner of a DME company in Hicksville, N.Y. As readers of this missive and Medical Practice Compliance Alert are aware, DME is a favorite of crooks and the OIG’s efforts to cut fraud in this area inconvenience honest providers.
We’ve all heard stories of people surrendering their drivers licenses – often not by choice – because the effects of aging have compromised their ability to be safe on the road.
A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology suggests that when group practices have different radiologists interpret different scans taken during the same session, the actual cost savings are a scant 1.23%, according to a report in Health Imaging.
Social media has taken off with the younger segment of the population and anyone who has gotten the dreaded Facebook friend request from a parent understands that its usage is expanding across the population.
President Obama favors replacing the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula with “a permanent, fiscally responsible” method for setting Medicare’s physician payment rates.
You’ve probably used Yelp and you’ve probably used Open Table. One offers fast access to peer reviews of restaurants and the other lets you search for available reservation times and book a table. In many cases, the Open Table capability is integrated into Yelp.
This isn’t a problem from a quantum physics pop-quiz. It is the denial anesthesia practices in WPS’s territory are seeing when their CRNA’s bill for ultrasonic guidance for needle placement (76942-26).

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