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MGMA: Finances, EMR top 2009 challenges for practices
Keeping operating costs down, maintaining physician compensation levels and buying/rolling out an EMR are the three biggest challenges to running a medical practice this year, according to a new... Read more...
Study: Physician compensation not keeping up with inflation
Last year, just about everyone took a hit from the U.S. economic crisis. Apparently that includes physicians, both primary-care physicians and specialists, whose overall compensation didn't keep up... Read more...
MGMA: Doctor pay much higher for med directors in nonhospital owned practices
A new study from the Medical Group Management Association has turned up an interesting stat: Apparently, doctors who work as medical directors in nonhospital-owned group practices make significantly... Read more...
Pay-for-performance likely to be focus at MGMA
These days, it's pretty clear that both CMS and private health insurers are committed to pay-for-performance schemes, but it seems that there's a fairly large gap between concept and reality, at... Read more...
MGMA: Specialty, PCP compensation grows slowly in 2007
According to a new study, it appears that while some specialists did well in 2007, most physician pay increases weren't anything to write home about. According to data from the Medical Group... Read more...
