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Efforts to bolster rural primary care residencies fall short
04/01/2013
by: John Commins

The federal government's efforts to train more physicians in primary care and get them to practice in rural areas have had dismal outcomes. They demonstrate the need for more coordination of medical workforce development on a national level, says one researcher.

Billers, managers see 2% to 3% pay raise in 2012 to match increased job duties
04/01/2013
by: Lauren C. Williams
A narrow majority of billers and billing supervisors got salary increases in 2012, according to Part B News’ nearly 350-respondent salary survey. But here’s the catch: Most of those billing specialists and managers who got pay raises also took on additional job responsibilities.
 
Malpractice cases gobble 11% of doctors' time
04/01/2013
by: Joe Cantlupe

Over a presumed 40-year career, the average physician spends more than 4 years—about 50 months of his or her time—with an unresolved malpractice claim.

Avoid ‘alert fatigue’ with workflow, EHR fixes
04/01/2013
by: Roy Edroso
If your clinical staff are ignoring their electronic health records (EHR) system alerts – a potentially disastrous habit – examine your workflows before making technical changes to the system, experts advise.
 
Is concierge medicine finally ready for takeoff?
04/01/2013
by: John Commins

A fear of major reimbursement cuts and other factors are building toward a "crescendo" of physician interest in direct pay medicine, suggests a report conducted for The Physicians Foundation.

Some big drugs see big changes, but most stable in Q2 drug prices
04/01/2013
by: Roy Edroso
Stability was the watchword for CMS’ second-quarter 2013 average sales price (ASP) list recently released by CMS. Price rises and drops were mostly modest; only two drugs were removed from the list; and a few popular drugs that saw big movement in the first quarter have seen their prices normalized.
 
Illinois physician named 'Country Doctor of the Year'
04/01/2013
by: John Commins

Internist, pediatrician, and licensed pharmacist Neil Nelson, MD, is on call 24/7 to attend to the 5,000 or so active patients in his practice—even when he's working at law enforcement or farming.

PBN Salary Survey: Education, duties performed affect billers’ average salaries
04/01/2013
by: Lauren C. Williams
As a part of Part B News’ salary survey coverage, the following graphs represent how billers’ and billing managers’ salaries are affected by education level and type of job duties.
 
RAND walks back HIT savings estimates
04/01/2013
by: John Commins

Expectations about the safety and efficiency of healthcare information technology have not been met, in part because of "the failure of many providers to make the process changes needed to realize the potential," a researcher says.

Watch private payers’ advances in efficiency for peek into Medicare future
04/01/2013
by: Karen Long
If you’re looking for the next wave of policy changes from Medicare, check out the programs that private payers are putting in place. The private sector’s role in advancing health care reform is to drive the innovation and investment into ideas that will ultimately impact Medicare, a private payer representative told industry experts and media at a panel discussion March 20 sponsored by Medicare Newsgroup.
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