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MAG recruiting physicians for CME surveyor role MAG Share     The Medical Association of Georgia is recruiting physicians to serve as surveyors for its continuing medical education accreditation program in Georgia. MAG receives its authority to accredit intrastate providers of CME through its Recognition by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. These accredited organizations have the authority to offer physicians AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ which meet Georgia license renewal requirements. More 70,000 Medicare signatures and counting...Georgia near top of pack MAG Share
Congress just passed the most far-reaching health reform legislation in decades. Unfortunately, lawmakers failed to address the Medicare funding mechanism for physicians. That's why the Medical Association of Georgia is promoting a nationwide grassroots campaign to collect one million signatures from patients and physicians that's calling for a fair and stable Medicare physician payment formula -- one that automatically keeps up with the cost of running a practice. Georgia had accounted for the fourth most signatures as of last week. More
Grady hospital makes profit The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Share
Grady Memorial Hospital officials say the once-struggling medical center is actually making a profit. Grady CEO Michael Young told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that a recent audit for 2009 showed the hospital about $34 million in the black. Young noted that about $25 million of that resulted from one-time infusions of cash and some accounting procedures that do not represent real cash on hand. More Doctor and patient: Do women make better doctors? Tne New York Times Share
Recently, one of Dr. Pauline Chen's patients, an elderly man, stopped her as she got up from her stool to leave his room. She had just finished examining him, offering her assessment and plan, and apologizing for his long wait since she had been running late that day. He listened patiently then hopped down from the exam table just as the doctor turned toward the door, the ties of his flimsy hospital gown flapping around his thin legs. More FDA urges doctors to report misleading drug pitches Reuters Share
U.S. health officials will encourage physicians to report misleading promotions from pharmaceutical salespeople who pitch medicines in doctors' offices or over dinner. The effort to be announced aims to increase regulators' reach into the largest area of prescription drug promotion -- the private contacts between drug company salespeople and prescribers. More  Obama's health care tab may top $1 trillion USA TODAY Share
Question: When is less than $1 trillion actually more than $1 trillion? Answer: When the White House and Congress are estimating health care costs. It's no surprise that the Congressional Budget Office now says the 10-year, $938 billion health care bill passed by Democrats and signed by President Obama likely will cost at least $115 billion more. More EMR adoption increases hospital costs InformationWeek Healthcare Share
A study shows "there are some real negatives that come with the positives" of electronic medical records, according to Michael Furukawa, one of the study's authors. Furukawa and his Arizona State University colleagues Raghu Santanam and Benjamin Shao analyzed data from more than 300 California hospitals that adopted some form of EMR from 1998 to 2007. More Health care fails small businesses Boston Share
Not long after President Nixon took the unprecedented step of imposing peacetime wage and price controls, the American people learned a basic economic lesson: Artificial controls don't work unless underlying costs are controlled. Four decades later, the Patrick administration is imposing controls on small business health insurance rates. The move will prove to be little more than an election-year reprise of Nixon's failed effort. More
Saving billions of dollars -- and physicians' time -- by streamlining billing practices Health Affairs Share
The U.S. system of billing third parties for health care services is complex, expensive, and inefficient. Physicians end up using nearly 12 percent of their net patient service revenue to cover the costs of excessive administrative complexity. A single transparent set of payment rules for multiple payers, a single claim form, and standard rules of submission, among other innovations, would reduce the burden on the billing offices of physician organizations. More Still confused about health care reform? WebMD Share
Public opinion remains divided about health care reform, but a majority of Americans, 55 percent, agree on one thing: They're confused about the new law, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Here are answers to frequently asked questions about the health overhaul and related issues that have many people scratching their heads. More
More doctors giving pharma sales reps the cold shoulder The Wall Street Journal Health Blog Share
Doctors haven't gotten any more open to visits from pharma reps over the last year. The number of physicians who were "rep-accessible," defined as meeting with at least 70 percent of salespeople who come calling, dropped by 18 percent from last year, according to sales and marketing consultants ZS Associates. More EMRs top priority for 58 percent of hospital CIOs InformationWeek Healthcare Share
With $20 billion-plus worth of meaningful use bonuses from the government at stake for their organizations, e-medical records and electronic ordering systems are the top IT priorities for hospital CIOs over the next two years, according to a survey. However, among hospital IT managers and directors, EMR projects ranked further down on the IT priority list, with only 25 percent naming those initiatives as "most important" for their organization over the next two years. More |
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