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With physicians being so busy, anything they can do to make more efficient use of their time is a good thing. Read this article in Physicians Practice to learn about time-saving applications, some techie, some not, to make your life a bit easier.

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This article in Physicians Practice shows how lack of basic thinking by the social engineers of Obama-Scare are making health insurance un-affordable by the millions who have been canceled, as well as why much of the Affordable Care Act is unenforceable.

This article in Physicians Practice by an attorney explains five scams you should be aware of, especially during the holiday season.

 

Under CMS’ value-based purchasing program, over 1,400 hospitals will see their reimbursements cut in 2014.

The good news is that 1,231 hospitals will see their payments increased by as much as 1.25%.

Read the article in ModernHealthcare.

Look out – the Office of the Inspector Generals considers routine waiving of copays to be kickbacks and a felony.

Trying to help out patients can have consequences: not only does the AMA consider this practice unethical, but it may be a violation of the physician’s contract with health plans.

Read the article in Physicians Practice.

Read this article about how some insurers are dealing with overutilization in Physicians Practice.

ModernHealthcare and NBC News are just two of the media outlets reporting this story.

Obama tries to fool the middle-class – again.

President Obama today announced a temporary “fix” to allow millions of Americans to keep their superior, less expensive policies. But it’s just for one year, wow, how generous. Perhaps he’s hoping everybody will forget by then.

This is a thoughtful posting by Jordan Grumet, MD  on KevinMD about what he considers to be over-testing patients when the answer is already apparent.

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2013/10/physicians-lost-backbone.html