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In a profession full of flux and uncertainty, America's physicians say they are generally not a happy lot. But female physicians do seem to be a bit less miserable overall, according to a recent study by The Physicians Foundation.
U.S. healthcare prices dropped marginally in March 2013, falling 0.1 percent from February 2013 prices, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
With the Affordable Care Act entering the home stretch of implementation, U.S. Senators are still trying to understand the costs and benefits of insurance market reforms, while diagnosing problems in the greater healthcare system.
A new report by Trust for America's Health says prevention improves health and productivity and saves billions, but is prevention really cost effective?
Among the least popular decisions handed down by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in recent years, it’s hard to top the rule requiring hospitals to rein in readmission rates or suffer the financial consequences. As most CFOs are painfully aware, those consequences include substantial reductions in reimbursements.
While the massive, monolithic hospital isn’t a relic of the past, real estate investors don’t see it as the wave of the future, either. Not when emerging payment models favor outpatient over inpatient care, they say.
President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget includes a variety of what he says are "manageable" changes for Medicare's 54 million beneficiaries as well as for the hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers that serve them.
Since ICD-10 implementation affects almost every department in a medical practice or hospital, it's fair to say that it's more than a medical coding problem. There are plenty of challenges to tackle across the organization.
In the early days of the latest incarnation of the patient-centered medical home, William Warning II, MD, the program director of a family medicine residency program, recognized an opportunity, and he wasn’t going to sit back and let it pass him – or his program – by.
A few years back, the nation’s most notorious junk food junkie had a change of heart. Cookie Monster, who subsisted solely on the chocolate chip cookies, went from singing, “C is for cookie,” to “eat poultry and greens along with your chocolate chips.”