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Are salaried physicians the key to health reform?
For decades, the American Medical Association has violently opposed any system other than fee-for-service medicine, but virtually any health reform that works is likely to require changes to... Read more...
Antitrust laws could limit efforts to control prices
A couple of weeks ago, President Obama and several major interest groups announced that they'd be able to cut $2 trillion off of the growth in healthcare spending over the next decade. That sounds... Read more...
AMA issues first health insurer report card
Increasingly, providers and their vendors have begun to rate insurance companies. This comes in part as a means of turning the tables on the insurers who, some say, have become far too focused on... Read more...
Blue plan: EMRs don't offer good ROI, but CPOE does
Most of the talk around electronic medical records to date has come with the assumption that such systems would not only improve care, they'd also save money. Well, one health plan has decided that... Read more...
