William LaJeunesse
Going to the doctor is going paperless, as new Obama administration rules require hospitals and physicians to convert millions of paper patient files to digital records.
Attorney general says hundreds of consumers have said they were misled about the card’s terms and conditions.
By Bloomberg News
Associated Press:
GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared the swine flu pandemic officially over Tuesday, months after many national authorities started canceling vaccine orders and shutting down hot lines as the disease ebbed from the headlines.
by Claude Solnik
Practicing medicine just got a little more expensive in New York for most doctors.
While physicians statewide have long faced one of the nation’s highest medical malpractice insurance rates, most are seeing rates rise after the state as of July 1 approved a 5 percent hike.
By Julian Pecquet
The Florida Medical Association is scheduled to consider the issue at its annual meeting next month.
BY: Gerard Conway, Esq.
Attached is a brief summary of the status of some of the more significant bills which MSSNY and New York physicians were/are following during this Session of the New York State Legislature. Since we have no final budget (the Senate failed to act on the “Revenue” bill) [...]
FYI
July 6 deadline_063010
FROM MGMA:
Today, CMS released the following statement:
On June 25, 2010, President Obama signed into law the “Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010.” This law establishes a 2.2 percent update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) payment rates retroactive from June 1 [...]
The House of Representatives just passed the Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010 (H.R. 3962) by a vote of 417 to 1. This legislation contains provisions that block the 21.3 percent cut to Medicare physician payments until Nov. 30. The Senate passed identical legislation late last week. [...]
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The number of doctors refusing new Medicare patients because of low government payment rates is setting a new high, just six months before millions of Baby Boomers begin enrolling in the government health care program.
ARTICLE ATTACHED USAToday062110
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