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Having a hard time finding physicians who are the right fit for your organization? You're not alone. A recent article posted by the MGMA e-Source recognized the looming physician shortage, and it mentioned the need for qualified physicians is projected to be worse than originally thought. Jennifer Metivier gives us eight tips for improving physician recruitment.
Sixty-five hospitals out of a field of nearly 1,200, have earned The Leapfrog Group's annual "Top Hospital" designation. The designation, which Leapfrog bills as the most competitive national hospital quality award in the country, recognizes quality of care.
Aetna on Tuesday announced results of a collaborative relationship with Connecticut-based primary care organization ProHealth Physicians, which since 2007 has made strides using information technology to improve quality of care and lower costs.
In advance of today's scheduled Senate subcommittee hearing on the proposed $29.1 billion merger of pharmacy benefit management companies Express Scripts and Medco, three Republican senators have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging them to pay special attention to the dominant position the merged company would have in the mail order pharmacy market.
Cardinal Health, a Dublin, Ohio-based, Fortune 19, healthcare services company has been ranked in the number one spot in Gartner's third annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25, replacing med-surg supplier Owens & Minor, which dropped to fifth place.
After three years of steady but small improvements in health across the United States, a new survey finds that no progress was made in health improvement between 2010 and 2011.
Fighting words were heard from both sides of the ICD-10 debate after the AMA called for a delay of the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline for conversion. LinkedIn and Twitter were bustling with yea or nay responses, which is why we asked Steve Sisko, IT consultant and avid ICD-10 blogger, and Rob Tennant, senior policy advisor at the MGMA, to weigh in.
Between 2010 and 2020 the overall market for chronic pain therapies will remain stable at approximately $20 billion, with treatments for back pain and arthritis predicted to be the most lucrative, according to findings from healthcare research firm Decision Resources.
More than half of all employers said they will continue to offer employer-sponsored health benefits after health reform is fully enacted according to the results of a survey of benefits decisions makers released by GfK Custom Research North America.
Friday was Donald Berwick's last day as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.