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Showing posts with label payment reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label payment reform. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 17, 2013

If The Hunger Games Came to Medicine

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“ “A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. ...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

A Critical Review of the Insurance Claim Denial Process

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"If you can speak what you will never hear,  if you can write what you will never read,  you have done rare things." -Hen...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

When the Government Puts Prices on Patients' Heads

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Recently, another predictable Trojan-horse provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act  appeared that promises to pit docto...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

DOJ Takes Aim at Doctors

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... as conspirators : This case is a watershed for two reasons: First, until now the Federal Trade Commission, not the Justice Department, h...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Might Medicare "Bundled Payment" Incentives Influence Patient Care Decisions?

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One wonders, might this be construed as a bribe ? Under the pilot project, Medicare is saving 4.4% on the base rates for heart and joint sur...
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DrWes
Westby G. Fisher, MD, FACC is a board certified internist, cardiologist, and cardiac electrophysiologist (doctor specializing in heart rhythm disorders) practicing at NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, IL, USA and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. He is an unpaid co-founder of Practicing Physicians of America, a 501c6 non-profit business league for working physicians. He entered the blog-o-sphere in November, 2005. DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in this blog are strictly the those of the author(s) and should not be construed as the opinion(s) or policy(ies) of NorthShore University HealthSystem, nor recommendations for your care or anyone else's. Please seek professional guidance instead.
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