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Physician Compensation Contracts For 2010 and Beyond

Posted on: Friday, December 4, 2009

Negotiating a clear and fair compensation contract with a physician can be a difficult thing to navigate, due to numerous laws and regulations that surround such a contract. Not least of these are the Stark laws, which ensure that a physicians compensation cannot be tied to referral of medicare patients. There are also CMS compliance [...]

Tags: CMS compliance program, healthcare, physician contracts, physicians compensation, Stark laws

Obama’s Health Care Plan to Penalize Specialists

Posted on: Friday, October 16, 2009

Specialists are quietly under fire in the new proposed health care bill. In it, the most highly paid doctors are asked to take a 5% pay cut, which is even more formidable than it sounds since Medicare dollars are worth 83 cents on the private dollar. When these figures are collated, it amounts to a [...]

Tags: american healthcare system, health care professionals, healthcare, healthcare jobs, healthcare professionals, healthcare reform

Senate Finance Committee to Vote October 13 on Health Care Bill

Posted on: Friday, October 9, 2009

The Senate Finance Committee will be voting October 13 on its overhaul to the health care bill. The newest incarnation of the bill has a price tag of $893 billion. The bill was drafted by the Commitee Chairman, Max Baucaus (D- Montana). It is expected to pass, but not without some “nay” votes from some [...]

Tags: health care bill, health care reforms, healthcare, healthcare news

Top 10 Modern Health Discoveries

Posted on: Wednesday, August 12, 2009

When we think of medical discoveries, most of us think back to the early twentieth century to discoveries like penicillin and the polio vaccine. We should be giving credit to the more recent breakthroughs in medicine; the problem is nobody really knows what they are.

Tags: health discoveries, healthcare, medical advances

How Do We Compare To Our Old System and To Other Countries? Part One of Two – Countries

Posted on: Friday, July 10, 2009

For decades, the U.S. healthcare system was the envy of the entire world. Not coincidentally, there was far less government involvement in medicine during this time. America had the finest doctors and hospitals, patients enjoyed high quality, affordable medical care, and thousands of private charities provided health services for the poor. Doctors focused on treating [...]

Tags: american healthcare system, healthcare, healthcare reform, healthcare systems, physician workforce, us health care

Skin Cancer Pill Reduces Tumors by 30%

Posted on: Monday, June 8, 2009

In a preliminary trial, a drug developed by Roche and Plexxikon Inc. has shrunk advanced melanoma tumors by 30%, even in cases where it has spread to other areas. The drug works through blocking cellular mutation in BRAF, a cellular pathway that occurs in 60% of melanomas and 8% of all solid tumors.
Results from [...]

Tags: health care, healthcare, skin cancer

Hospital Ratings and How They Work

Posted on: Monday, June 1, 2009

Quality ratings for hospitals come in two flavors – professional and public. As can be expected, the professional quality ratings are the ones that can be trusted, but they are not as easy to access as the public rating systems. Public rating systems can be skewed towards a positive outcome by advertising, or skewed towards [...]

Tags: healthcare, healthcare jobs, healthcare professionals, healthcare systems, hospital ratings

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