Stephanie Bouchard
Healthcare humorist David Glickman is set to show healthcare finance managers at MGMA's upcoming conference in Arizona how to find the funny in healthcare finance. He shares his secrets with us.
Doctors are once again facing a postponement of a Medicare payment cut under a deal brokered by the House-Senate committee charged with writing a bill extending the payroll tax reduction.
The efforts to curtail healthcare fraud have returned $4.1 billion to U.S. taxpayers in 2011, says a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice.
The fiscal year 2013 U.S. Health and Human Services budget strives to make wise investments while being fiscally responsible, HHS officials said yesterday during a live web broadcast announcing its budget proposal.
Author and documentary filmmaker, T.R. Reid, talks to Healthcare Finance News about his new PBS film, "U.S. Health Care: The Good News," and about healthcare issues facing the country. We run the final part of our conversation today.
Author and documentary filmmaker, T.R. Reid, talks to Healthcare Finance News about his new PBS film, "U.S. Health Care: The Good News," and about healthcare issues facing the country. We run part one of our conversation today.
As the pressure on independent practices has increased, many physicians have left their private practices to become employed in hospitals and health system settings. For those fighting to stay independent but who need some support, there are practice management companies.
As healthcare reform pushes the industry toward accountable care organization models and payment reform, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is hoping to offer its members a tool that will allow them to bring in revenue and improve the health of their patients.
As reimbursement rates have declined and more employers are offering their employees high-deductible health plans, doctors’ offices are more dependent on often less reliable payment directly from patients. In 2012, strategies for handling billing those patients will be a focus of doctors’ offices experts say.
As the trend of doctors leaving private practice to join hospitals and health systems continues, the pressure is on those doctors who aren’t leaving private practice. Marketing can help dial the pressure back.