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Practice Management Medicare & Medicaid

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Avoid 2016 Medicare penalty: Use a registry for quality reporting

Physicians who don’t successfully report for Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) this year will face a 2 percent payment penalty in 2016.

Practice Management Digital

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Physicians take on telemedicine to bolster care delivery

Recognizing the ability of telemedicine to improve access to care, increase care coordination and quality, and reduce growth in health care spending, the nation’s physicians have set out to shape essential elements of telemedicine to ensure patients receive the best possible care.

Practice Management Scope of Practice

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What you should consider when planning a team-based care model

As team-based models of delivering care become an increasingly common way to improve care coordination and efficiency, a new report offers guidance for the crucial elements physicians should consider when planning such a team.

Education Improve GME

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Duty-hours innovation needed: Report

While the medical profession needs continued investigation of resident duty-hours, it also needs to encourage new models for duty-hours requirements, physicians, residents and medical students agreed last month.

Practice Management Payment & Delivery Models

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Doctors tell CMS to put the brakes on new medical staff rules

A final rule revising Medicare’s conditions of participation for hospitals could impact physicians’ role in hospital governance and patient care activities. Under the latest final rule, published in May and scheduled to take effect July 11, a multi-hospital health system would be permitted to have a single, integrated medical staff.

Advocacy Access to Care

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Early retirees struggle with gap in health coverage

Physicians planning to retire early often face a gap in their health insurance coverage. Until they become eligible for Medicare, early retirees frequently choose between expensive individual plans and COBRA continuation plans to eliminate the gaps in their health insurance coverage.

Students Med Student Health

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10 top tips for living with a medical student

If your significant other isn’t in medicine, he or she may appreciate some insight into your unique situation. The AMA Alliance magazine, Physician Family, offers 10 practical tips for living with medical students.

Practice Management Sustainability

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Learn how to make electronic payments work for your practice

Have you asked the health insurers you work with to pay claims via electronic funds transfer (EFT)? Insurers are required to offer this regulatory standard payment method using the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network if you request it.