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Reimbursement cuts: Texas doctors using personal resources
By Andersen Keen · 12 years ago
Small private practices struggle to survive, even as Texas Medical Association (TMA) President reported a significant worsening of the practice environment with various physicians using money from their personal reserves or secured bank loans to ...
Hospital EHR payments doubled in the last quarter exceeding $1.9 billion
By Andersen Keen · 12 years ago
Hospital payments escalated to more than double from October through December 2011 exceeding $1.9 billion, through the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health-record (EHR) system incentive programs, as reported by CMS’s latest monthly report. Both physicians ...
Physician Bundle Payment Plans: Improving Claims Generation
By Andersen Keen · 12 years ago
Healthcare is costly in general and what makes it more prone to increase in costs is that it comes in phases: pre-hospitalization, hospitalization and post-hospitalization. To address the situation and provide patients with an all-encompassing ...