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CMS says doctors earned $16.7M on P4P demo
You've gotta love it when CMS gives out money above and beyond the usual reimbursement rates--and it's even better when the bonuses involved work out for pretty much everyone involved. That's the... Read more...
GA doctors sue state for access to contract terms
For the last few years, a group of physicians has been working to force the health insurer administering Georgia's state employee health benefits plan to disclose what it pays physicians around the... Read more...
CoxHealth to pay $60M to settle with feds
Springfield, MO-based health system CoxHealth has agreed to pay $60 million to resolve a myriad of charges related to its financial relationships with referring physicians and its Medicare billing... Read more...
Case study: Kaiser physicians go on sales calls
It's not often that prospective health plan members get pitched directly by a physician. But at Kaiser Permanente Colorado, that's exactly what's happening. The HMO has launched a program under which... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Tool calculates ROI on quality programs; Doctors resist e-mailing patients; and much more...
> A new tool could help health plans and providers demonstrate the return on investment from quality improvement. Read more...
Trend: Medical prices set to jump again
While medical prices fell for the fourth consecutive year in 2007, observers say that health costs likely will shoot up again, soon. According to an article in the journal Health Affairs by author... Read more...
Cigna pays for more retail clinic services
Cigna has expanded the number of retail clinics for which it will reimburse services, making it more likely that its peers will add such clinics to their provider list. The health plan already... Read more...
MD groups struggle with Medicare incentive goals
It looks like the initial stages of a new CMS demonstration project have turned out to be something of a disappointment. In April 2005, CMS began offering annual bonuses to 10 physician groups if... Read more...
Case study:Hospital creates patient-sharing network
If you're a provider in the Boston suburbs, you stand a chance of losing your patients to the high-prestige hospitals and specialists found in the city--which houses, among other institutions,... Read more...
Study: CMO compensation up in 2006
Total pay for chief medical officers was up across the board in 2006, though modestly within medical groups, hospitals and integrated health systems, according to a new study. CMOs with managed care... Read more...
