Part B News | Physician Practice Perspectives

Physician compensation models are upside down

10/01/2013

by: Joe Cantlupe

The Dean Clinic has navigated through tough waters toward a value-based physician compensation model. It is an outlier. More commonly, physician and hospital contracts are top-heavy with volume, not value, a physician recruiter says.

Physician integration failures are avoidable

10/01/2013

by: Philip Betbeze

Integrating physicians under one management umbrella can be a huge challenge. It's not the acquiring that's hard. It's the integrating. Lack of a cohesive practice strategy is often the culprit.

SGR repeal effort to resume in house

10/01/2013

by: Margaret Dick Tocknell

A house subcommittee will have another chance next week to amend a draft proposal to kill the sustainable growth rate formula. Without a "doc fix" in place, physicians who treat Medicare patients will face a 24.4% cut in reimbursement rates in 2014.

Proposed Medicare physician fees' winners and losers

10/01/2013

by: Cheryl Clark

Some of the biggest cuts are aimed at independent testing laboratories, which see 26% of their fees slashed, followed by radiation therapy centers, which may lose 13% under CMS's "particularly complicated," proposed changes.

Tech tools tackle medication problems

10/01/2013

by: Scott Mace

Medication adherence is a multifaceted challenge that's getting a shot in the arm from technology developers. Glowing pill bottle caps connected to the Internet and a digital library of pill images with detailed data on drug interactions are just the beginning.

Nine Pioneer ACOs to leave program

10/01/2013

by: Margaret Dick Tocknell

Seven of the nine participants in CMS's pilot program for accountable care organizations are applying to transition to the Medicare Shared Savings Program, while two are abandoning the program completely.

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