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Read MoreOrganizations continue to prepare for testing and the switch to ICD-10, but smaller entities still anticipate difficulties, according to an AHIMA survey. The survey, conducted in May and June, included representatives from 454 healthcare organizations, most from hospitals and physician practices. Sixty-five percent of respondents said they could begin end-to-end testing before the Oct. 1, […]
Read MoreMuch to the consternation of organized medicine, a federally funded Medicaid pay raise for physicians will expire at year’s end without any Congressional action to extend it into 2015. However, all is not lost for physicians who saw their Medicaid rates boosted to Medicare levels for evaluation and management services and vaccine administration in 2013 […]
Read MoreGetting More from Your Employees the 20-60-20 rule: The top 20 percent of employees get 80 percent of the work done, with the rest done by the average employees (60 percent) and little if any done by the worst 20 percent. End ‘equal treatment’ today! Focus on high performers, Those high-performing workers can achieve as […]
Read MoreA New York state judge sentenced an anesthesiologist to a minimum of 10 years and 8 months in prison for operating a pain pill mill in New York City and recklessly causing the deaths of two patients. In July, a jury found Stan Xuhui Li, MD, guilty of two counts of second-degree manslaughter in the […]
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