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Uncategorized Published - 27 July, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
More Nurses and Better Nurse Education Lower Inpatient Mortality

Since this is involves surgery it is related to anesthesia so I wanted to share it with our readers. Authors: Aiken LH et al., Lancet 2014 May 24; 383:1824 Surgical patients in hospitals with better nurse-to-patient ratios and higher percentages of nurses with bachelor degrees are less likely to die within 30 days. In an […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 July, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Beware the Reimbursement Gap

If a patient doesn’t pay his health insurance premiums, the insurer doesn’t have to pay the provider for care rendered during the grace period. That means that up to two months of provider services may not be reimbursed. A little-known provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could leave physicians holding the bag […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 July, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
Docs Air Reasons for Job Dissatisfaction

A medical staffing firm survey shows what’s really behind job dissatisfaction among physicians: stress, declining reimbursements, and loss of autonomy. Six out of tenphysicians said they would quit if they could, a survey commissioned by the Physicians Foundation in 2012 revealed. Recently, healthcare staffing firm Jackson Healthcare, released the results of its third national survey […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 July, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
9 in 10 New Physician Jobs Follow Employment

This is not just about our specialty however I thought it was something our followers would want to read. The growing importance of population health management and value-based care as well as market share and leverage with payers is spurring much of the trend toward physician hiring. The shift toward the employed physician model has […]

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Uncategorized Published - 27 July, 2014    By - Dr. Clemens
8 Steps to Interview Anyone for Any Job

Here’s how to conduct a job interview that allows you to hire the best people–versus just the best people you know. Ever know top performers who still had hiring managers judge them as complete failures and misfits within minutes during a job interview? The sad irony is that you’re incompetent until proven job-worthy when interviewing […]

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