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Obama budget freezes physicians' Medicare pay for 10 years
If Congress follows the White House proposal, $371 billion would go toward reversing planned annual cuts but would not increase Medicare rates.

"Speed dating" matches physicians, patients
A Texas hospital uses the matchmaking model as an informal way for both parties to check out compatibility before entering a doctor-patient relationship.

GOVERNMENT & MEDICINE

Obama targets federal deficit
The president wants a commission to address the national debt, projected to double by 2020, with Medicare and Medicaid consuming about a quarter of spending.

Another Medicare pay patch on the horizon?
Enactment of a debt limit bill would allow for a five-year Medicare rate freeze without a requirement to find offsets.

PROFESSIONAL ISSUES

Calif. limits how long HMO patients wait for appointments
Primary care doctors in the state will have to see patients within 10 days. Physician organizations say some requirements in the new regulation are troublesome.

Space invader: Meteorite hits Virginia doctors' office
The exam room where the space rock landed has become the most requested room among patients, who joke about wearing hard hats to appointments.

Mental health treatment varies by location
Mexican-Americans and blacks receive the least care for depression, researchers find. Another study says multiple prescriptions may be causing some harmful interactions.

OPINION

Editorial - What editorial writers are saying about health reform after Brown's election
The victory by Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown to fill the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat stalls Democratic attempts to pass national health reform legislation.

BUSINESS

Hospital mass layoffs hit new high in 2009
The number of workers affected by layoffs of 50 or more people also was high in ambulatory health services settings.

Pa. Blues plan may pursue capitation
Highmark will confirm only that it's thinking about "alternative reimbursement approaches." The plan canceled its last capitated contract in 2006.

Practice Management - Job-sharing can boost work-life balance, cut practice expenses

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