Stephanie Bouchard

Experts give their best advice on this new technology

Since the Affordable Care Act was created, critics have argued that the healthcare law fails to contain healthcare costs. A new brief from the Urban Institute presents evidence illustrating the ACA's cost containment measures, but leaves room for the debate to continue.

A RAND Corporation study, released Monday in the November issue of Health Affairs, found that physicians with less than 10 years of experience had 13.2 percent higher overall costs than physicians with 40 or more years of experience.

The monthly jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning shows the country is advancing steadily but slowly on the jobs front, and the healthcare sector continues to be one of the markets showing regular growth.

Two of Michigan's largest hospital groups -- Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont Health System -- announced on Wednesday plans to combine into a new $6.4 billion organization.

With concern over primary care shortages not likely to abate any time soon, the debate over using nurse practitioners to fill in the gaps continues. A new policy brief released by Health Affairs last month outlines the issues.

Independent doctors, before you hit the panic button and become employed by a hospital, take a deep breath. There are alternative options out there.

An internship program can provide healthcare organizations with a competitive advantage, said Craig Nesta, JD, a practice management consultant and assistant professor at Boston University's School of Public Health, during a session Tuesday at MGMA-ACMPE's annual conference in San Antonio.

Think the transition to ICD-10 is just learning a bunch (a real big bunch) of new codes? Think again. A session held Oct. 22 during MGMA-ACMPE's annual conference in San Antonio laid out the impact of ICD-10 on physician practices and how they can prepare for it on the cheap.