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Showing 8 articles from October 9, 2014.

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Doctor’s Orders
I sat in the parking garage, phone to my ear, breaking bad news to the doctor/client on the other end of the line. He, most likely standing just outside a patient exam room, showed me what might be a healer’s most valuable trait.
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HEALTHCARE LEADER: Sandra Ray
Administrator, Henry County Healthcare Center Not one to shy away from the unknown, Sandra Ray has taken on many new programs and projects throughout her 30-plus year career.
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MEDICAL ECONOMICS: ICD-10 Delay. PREPARE!!!
Everything involving the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is a moving target. But there’s no denying that ICD-10 is coming. It’s just a question of when.
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Medicare Math
… Or How a 2.3 Percent Raise Became a 3 Percent Reduction At first glance, the FY-2015 revision of the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) appears to offer acute care hospitals a 2.3 percent rate increase beginning this month.
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October 2014
Brief business news items from the local healthcare community.
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PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Mihir K. Patel, M.D., MSc
When West Tennessee Gastro hired Mihir Patel, MD, MSc, in July, there was more than a new doctor in the area. Patel’s addition to the gastroenterology staff meant patients would have access to new technology and new treatments.
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Reimbursement Revisit
A Look at payment innovation While physicians and facilities have long had to keep up with different negotiated contract rates among payers, the reimbursement landscape has become much more varied over the last few years as a push toward payment innovation has ushered in a host of reimbursement options ranging from shared savings programs to bundled payments to carrot-and-stick compensation as applied to quality and efficiency metrics.
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Surgeons to Patients: Is This Really Necessary?
Doctors say sometimes waiting is the best option Before deciding on whether a surgical procedure is necessary, the patient and surgeon should be discussing a pile of questions that could end up being thick enough to cut with a scalpel.
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