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Chip Means

Chip is the New Media Manager for Healthcare Finance News and other MedTech Media brands. Follow Chip on Twitter @chipmedia.

By Chip Means | 12:00 am | July 26, 2007
PORTLAND, ME – Maine physicians stand to lose about $27 million in Medicare reimbursements by 2016 – a relatively low figure compared to the losses pending in other states. New York, for i...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | July 26, 2007
WASHINGTON – The bipartisan Senate Finance Committee overwhelmingly passed a proposal to renew and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program on July 19. The committee...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | July 19, 2007
The bipartisan Senate Finance Committee overwhelmingly passed a proposal to renew and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Thursday. The committee's 17-...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | July 17, 2007
Maine physicians stand to lose about $27 million in Medicare reimbursements by 2016 - a relatively low figure compared to the losses pending in other states. New York, for instance, could lose $489 mi...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | July 16, 2007
Three days after the Senate Finance Committee announced a proposal for renewing the State Children's Health Insurance Program, lawmakers unveiled a $35 billion bipartisan plan to secure the coverage o...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | July 11, 2007
If a good compromise leaves both parties unsatisfied, here's to the Senate Finance Committee. Committee Chairmen Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | July 09, 2007
The federal government announced Friday a final rule that limits how much it will pay state Medicaid agencies for prescription drugs. The regulation, which aims to curb inflated drug pri...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | July 09, 2007
WASHINGTON – The Congressional Budget Office has issued a Medicare spending report that provides new insight to the relationship between physician compensation levels and patient volume....
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | July 09, 2007
HARRISBURG, PA – A new bill introduced in Pennsylvania’s House would have the state pay the balances of medical students’ loans for graduates who agree to practice medicine in t...
By Chip Means | 12:00 am | July 09, 2007
Physicians in academic settings make less money than those in private practices. And although university-based physicians tend to treat patients with higher levels of acuity, a new study confirms that...