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� WellPoint program lets employers name their price for doctors - July 29, 2013
� Medical credit card agreement requires interest rate transparency - July 16, 2013
� Column: Claims analysis shows doctors the way to fight insurer denials - July 15, 2013
� ACA employer mandate delay may mean more patients in exchanges - July 15, 2013
� Medicare doctor pay data release could be in next SGR bill - July 1, 2013
� Hospital jobs turning into a doctors’ market - June 24, 2013
� Doctor ACO pay risk varies greatly on payer: public or private - June 17, 2013
� Insurers have big plans for value-based doctor payments - May 27, 2013
� Medical directors’ duties linked to quality metrics - May 7, 2013
� Will doctors knowing the price really cut medical costs? - May 6, 2013
� Will ACA be a boon for concierge care? - April 15, 2013
� Doctors may lose potent legal tactic against insurers - March 18, 2013
� Column: When to consider suing an insurer for underpayment - Feb. 25, 2013
� Brief: Cost not a factor in physician orders of imaging tests - Feb. 4, 2013
� HIPAA gets tougher on physicians - Feb. 4, 2013
� Health plans signal willingness to alter doctor pay - Feb. 4, 2013
� WellPoint expands telemedicine opportunities for doctors - Jan. 30, 2013
� Brief: Judge bars prompt-pay law at insurers’ request - Jan. 28, 2013
� Physician employment: Build a contract that suits you - Jan. 14, 2013
� Medicare pay struggle a familiar year-end cliffhanger - Dec. 24, 2012
� Medicaid primary care pay at risk in lame-duck talks - Dec. 12, 2012
� ACOs, already surging, poised for even more growth - Dec. 10, 2012
� 4 essentials to physician-hospital alignment (MGMA-ACMPE meeting) - Dec. 10, 2012
� Medicare pay uncertainty called threat to program innovations - Dec. 7, 2012
� Odds favor physicians in appeals of Medicare denials - Dec. 3, 2012
� Medicare SGR sticker shock adds urgency to pay reform campaign - Dec. 3, 2012
� Medical practices wary of insurer efforts on new payment programs - Dec. 3, 2012
� Geographic payment adjustments: Medicare's disputed borders - Nov. 26, 2012
� Discussion: Organized medicine moves to block end run on prompt pay for physicians - Nov. 26, 2012
� Physician pay a major unknown despite health reform certainty - Nov. 19, 2012
� Story Comment: AMA adopts principles to govern possible Medicare switch to a defined-contribution system - Nov. 13, 2012
� Medicaid pay turnabout: More states boosting rates - Nov. 5, 2012
� Oddsmakers predict sequestration and SGR delay - Nov. 2, 2012
� Medical societies join to fight insurer prompt-pay lawsuit - Oct. 29, 2012
� Medicare IPAB: Rational or rationing? - Oct. 15, 2012
� MedPAC moves toward backing geographic pay reductions - Oct. 12, 2012
� Massive job losses expected under Medicare sequester - Sept. 24, 2012
� AMA backs bills to stop Medicare imaging pay cuts - Sept. 10, 2012
� Doctors shift focus to compliance as ICD-10 deadline set - Sept. 10, 2012
� GOP wants new projections on Medicare cost-control panel - Sept. 6, 2012
� SGR repeal cost estimate drops to $245 billion - Aug. 30, 2012
� Finances most likely reason for large-group doctors to seek new jobs - Aug. 20, 2012
� One-year Medicare pay freeze proposed in House - Aug. 2, 2012
� Risk adjustment needed when doctor pay is based on patient load - Aug. 2, 2012
� Private shared-savings deal puts half of future raises at hospital system at risk - July 31, 2012
� Medicare pay: Budget sequester adds to annual payment rate woes - July 30, 2012
� Health plans look for fraud before they pay claims - July 16, 2012
� How to split the health care dollar (America�s Health Insurance Plans meeting) - July 9, 2012
� Are ACOs the answer for Medicaid? - July 2, 2012
� News AMA calls for pharmacies to offer interpreter services - July 2, 2012
� 4 ways social media can improve your medical practice - June 25, 2012
� States still targeting Medicaid pay to contain costs - June 25, 2012
� Economists see health spending bouncing back - June 25, 2012
� Medicare joins with insurers to test paying for care management - June 18, 2012
� Hospital-owned practices to receive lower Medicare rates under new rule - June 18, 2012
� Organized medicine details future of Medicare payment without SGR - June 11, 2012
� Compensation for most health plan CEOs rose in 2011 � to $87 million in total - May 31, 2012
� Medicare�s bet on primary care - May 28, 2012
� Most doctors headed for penalty over Medicare quality reporting - May 28, 2012
� Former Medicare chiefs say SGR must be eliminated - May 21, 2012
� Medicaid primary care pay: The next SGR? - May 21, 2012
� Discussion: Physicians will lead ACOs forward - May 14, 2012
� Physicians fight �unworkable� Medicare overpayment rule - April 30, 2012
� Prices for doctor services lag behind inflation - April 30, 2012
� Few doctors downloading Medicare resource use reports - April 9, 2012
� CMS backlog shortchanges doctors on e-prescribing exemptions - April 9, 2012
� House passes IPAB repeal, medical liability reform bill - April 2, 2012
� MedPAC calls for pay parity between hospital, doctor office visits - March 26, 2012
� Medical financial stress greatest among families with children - March 26, 2012
� House closer to repeal of Medicare pay board - March 19, 2012
� Medicare overhauls patient claims statements - March 15, 2012
� Texas doctor indicted in $375 million health care fraud scheme - March 8, 2012
� Medicare contractors rejecting pay for some legitimate services - March 1, 2012
� HHS may require doctors to keep Medicare financial records for 10 years - Feb. 27, 2012
� Medicare doctor pay patch sets up 32% cut for 2013 - Feb. 27, 2012
� Obama budget proposal sidesteps Medicare mandatory spending cuts - Feb. 20, 2012
� Medicare physician pay frozen until 2013 - Feb. 17, 2012
� United database settlement checks almost in the mail - Feb. 16, 2012
� RUC adds 2 seats for primary care - Feb. 13, 2012
� Medicare PQRS: Quality reporting or else - Feb. 6, 2012
� Unspent war funds eyed to avoid years of Medicare doctor pay cuts - Feb. 6, 2012
� Anthem refuses to repay claims - Jan. 31, 2012
� Problems finding new Medicare primary care doctors small but growing - Jan. 9, 2012
� Column: Congress misses another chance to fix Medicare SGR - Jan. 2, 2012

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