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 […]
Read MoreA 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 […]
Read MoreThis 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 […]
Read MoreHere’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 […]
Read MoreA molecular imaging scan in addition to a conventional bone scan can provide the necessary information about the physiological health of the spine to select the most appropriate pain-killing treatment protocol for patients suffering from low back pain, according to a study presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and […]
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