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Patients in Minnesota will be the first in the continental United States to have real-time access to a “virtual clinic,” where they can talk with a physician who can make diagnoses and prescribe medications via the Web or a phone.

During the last 10 years, New York counties outside New York City cited the transfer of personal financial assets in denying an average of 7 percent of applications for Medicaid coverage of nursing home care.

Most Americans don’t support an “individual mandate” for health insurance, although they do support a “shared-responsibility” plan that combines an individual mandate with expanded roles for employers, government and insurers.

Now that tax season is over, it’s time for physician practices to start saving receipts and filing records again. There are more than 400 possible deductions that practices can take, although most physicians only know of a few common ones.

Physician compensation for medical directorships in non-hospital-owned group practices is greater than in hospital-owned practices for all specialties except primary care, according to the Medical Group Management Association’s “Medical Directorship/On Call Compensation Survey: 2009 Report Based on 2008 Data.”

With the current physician shortage and the ongoing economic recession, the recruitment department in a healthcare organization has become very important.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid did not rescind the controversial competitive bidding rule before it was scheduled to go into effect on April 18, despite urging from Congress.

The medical staff at Oakwood Hospital & Medical Center in Dearborn, Mich., will soon offer medical care to recently laid-off Ford Motor Company workers at no cost.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, one of the nation’s premiere cancer treatment centers, has signed a multi-year contract for revenue cycle management and collection management services.