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Beth Israel Deaconess doctors donate $350K to avert layoffs
In an unprecedented show of support for hospital staffers (well, we've never heard of such a thing, anyway), the heads of 13 medical departments at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have agreed to... Read more...
CA P4P programs don't pay enough to motivate; Discussing end-of-life can lower costs;
> A recently-released study of California pay-per-performance programs suggests that the program's financial incentives weren't large enough to generate real changes in physician behavior. Article... Read more...
Health plan bureaucracy steals doctors' time from patients
A new survey by the Texas Medical Association concludes that dealing with health plan bureaucracy--particularly collections--steals doctors' time with their patients. Doctors said they're worried... Read more...
Hospitals spend big on temp surgeons
Of late, general surgeons have started leaving their practices--and often, are going to work as temps instead. Full-time locum tenens surgeons can make $250,000 or more a year, or twice what they... Read more...
Struggling financially, physicians asks hospitals for help
An AHA study has found that physicians are turning to hospitals for help as they struggle with financial burdens and lowered incomes. The study, which surveyed 736 hospital chief executives, found... Read more...
Study: Reimbursement delays and low fees result in doctors turning Medicaid patients away
A new study shows that low fees are not the only thing discouraging physicians from accepting Medicaid patients. The study, performed by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), showed... Read more...
Sermo partners with Bloomberg to connect physicians, investors
Professional investors will soon be able to talk (almost) directly to physicians thanks to a new partnership between Bloomberg, L.P. and Sermo. The new partnership is, as far as your editor knows, a... Read more...
Study: Few hospitals offering subsidized EMRs
When HHS and the IRS both gave their OK to hospitals offering subsidized EMRs to their physicians, it was a big day. Hospitals had been waiting impatiently for the go-ahead for quite some time, and... Read more...
CMS to pay more than $36M in quality reporting bonuses
CMS has announced last week that it will pay out more than $36 million in incentives money to providers who reported data on quality of care delivered between July 2007 and December 2007 as part of... Read more...
