Physician fee schedule grab bag: CMS proposes self-referral rule changes in advance of Stark Phase III rulemaking

19 years ago

Tacked on to the proposed CMS 2008 physician fee schedule for Medicare, to be published July 12, is the usual…

CMS proposes that ambulance service beneficiary signature requirement be relaxed

19 years ago

Ambulance services may have a little extra paperwork to do (CMS estimate: just 5 minutes per run, though that starts…

CMS to publish proposed 2008 Medicare physician fee schedule and rules

19 years ago

CMS put its 2008 physician fee schedule "on display" last Monday; I was on the beach, so this post had…

Coordinated care vs. primary care: what's the problem and what's the solution?

19 years ago

Over at CommonHealth this week, Debra Geihsler proposes a coordinated care model as a solution to the looming PCP crisis. …

News of first HIPAA security audit trickles out

19 years ago

While neither the federales nor the hospital in question has confirmed the story, an Atlanta hospital has reportedly been the…

Beach Blawg at Idealawg

19 years ago

Stephanie West Allen co-hosts this week's sizzling Blawg Review at Idealawg.  Her co-host is Julie Fleming-Brown, of Life at the…

IRS offers further clarification of EHR safe harbors

19 years ago

The IRS recently issued a Q&A document clarifying a handful of questions raised by the memorandum on the EHR safe…

Thoughts on potential new directions in Medicare

19 years ago

Over at Let's Talk Health Care, Charlie Baker has been musing about how to wrestle with the intractable problems of…

More on minute clinics in Massachusetts and elsewhere

19 years ago

Retail clinics are being reimbursed for services by payors -- and CIGNA added a new retail clinic provider to its…

Flying down to RHIO

19 years ago

Some good news and some bad news.  The bad: Northeast Pennsylvania RHIO bites the dust; the most recent casualty.  Tip…