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Survey: 9% of employers say they'll drop health coverage

by: Roy Edroso Jul 25, 2012

You may be losing some patients: Nearly one in ten bosses say they'll pay a penalty rather than come up to the ACA's standards.

The study from Deloitte, reports the Wall Street Journal, says "9% of companies in the Deloitte study said they expected to stop offering insurance in the next one to three years."

When is a demo not a demo?

by: Ben Penn Jul 18, 2012

CMS is taking heat for its Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible demonstration program -- but not for the reason you might think.

According to its critics, the 15-state program isn’t really a demo at all, since the state proposals, if approved, would serve 3 million patients, or roughly 40% of the nation’s full-benefit duals, according to a MedPAC letter to CMS.

Study: Solo doctor recruitment on steep decline

by: Roy Edroso Jul 16, 2012

A survey shows doctors increasingly work for hospitals or large practices. Is the small practice over?

A recent report from physician staffing company Merritt Hawkins finds the big recruiters of physicians are increasingly hospitals and large practices.

New G code for primary care, new e-Rx hardship exemptions in proposed physician fee schedule

by: Ben Penn and Karen Long Jul 9, 2012

The proposed 2013 Medicare physician fee schedule's significant payment boost to primary care would hinge on the addition of a new G-code that allows community physicians to bill for post-discharge care separately and in addition to traditional E/M codes.

States consider rejecting federal Medicaid funds, expansion under ACA

by: Ben Penn Jul 6, 2012

Whether you'll need to prepare for a vastly expanded Medicaid patient population now depends on your state government. You can check out sites such as this that have begun aggregating the status of all 50 states based on whether they will definitively accept federal ACA dollars to boost their Medicaid program, haven’t decided, or won’t implement Medicaid expansion, as last week’s Supreme Court ruling now allows.

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