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Issue Date: April 15, 2002
Hospitalists Save Groups Time, Money
This article discusses the benefits hospitalists can provide to PCPs in terms of reducing costs, increasing efficiency, and offering the potential to increase income (by freeing up time otherwise spent on visiting their hospitalized patients).
Should We Find a Way to Promote Primary Care?
This editorial discusses the growing specialty shortage, which contradicts a 1981 prediction that there would be a surplus of specialists by 2000. It explains why the prediction hasn't come true, and what has happened instead.
Practice Merges Business, Medicine
This article discusses the marketing strategies a physician group in Atlanta has used to strengthen its competitive edge over other physician groups in the area.
Group Turns Losses Into Gains
This article discusses how a large multispecialty group in Northern California has managed to increase profits in a region of the country where many medical groups are struggling or failing.
Adequate Capitation Rates Needed
This article discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the delegated model, arguing that this model can be a viable method of reimbursement as long as rates adequately reflect the actual costs of care.
Proper Coding Helps to Avoid Penalties, Raise Practice Income
This article discusses the importance to rheumatologists of complying with guidelines on the proper coding and documentation of services provided to patients. It also discusses the typical reasons for undercoding and overcoding, and how these problems can be corrected.
Registry Provides Performance Data
This article discusses how physicians can use outcomes research to improve the quality of care they deliver. Specifically, the article discusses the Merged Cardiac Registry and how it enables practices and hospitals to compare their results with the results of others, as well as to improve outcomes.
Rising Malpractice Rates, Other Costs Threaten Viability of Many Practices
In this interview, Tim Norbeck, executive director of the Connecticut State Medical Society, discusses the harsh impact several factors--the flawed medicare payment formula, the malpractice insurance premium crisis, the HIPAA regulations, and the managed care squeeze--are having on physicians nationwide.
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