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Hundreds, if not thousands, of physicians are scammed by their own patients every year.

With the federal government’s Recovery Audit Contractor program in full swing, and the changes wrought by healthcare reform promising more audits on the horizon, hospital executives are all but certain that compliance budgets will need to rise in coming years.

Just about everyone agrees that the way we pay for primary care needs fixing. Under the current insurance model, doctors get paid for procedures and tests rather than for time spent with patients, which makes doctors and patients alike unhappy and increases costs.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is calling for a one percent pay increase for physicians.

Facing continued public outcry and pressure from the California Department of Insurance, two of the state's largest health insurers have scaled back or eliminated their plans to raise rates in 2011.

Accountable care organizations may be the future of the healthcare delivery system, but disagreement exists about the economic impact on providers.

In 2002, New Mexico made it legal to allow certain psychologists who completed specific training to prescribe psychiatric medicines.

Supporters of poison control centers say a proposed $27 million reduction in funding, part of a package of cuts announced in February by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), would close some centers and lead to higher healthcare costs.

The American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living have released a report showing that the long-term care industry is the nation’s tenth largest employer.

A new study has found that guided care of patients with multiple chronic conditions is ambiguous in terms of cost, but still holds value to people from various sectors of the healthcare industry.