19 Jan

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HealthLeadersMedia | A federal proposal to base 30% of hospital "incentive" payments on patient experience scores is meeting with strong resistance, in part because of concerns that culturally, patients in some parts of the country are just harder to please. "We have to look at the...

07 Jan

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HealthLeadersMedia.com | Healthcare is a huge profession, with millions of medical professionals serving hundreds of millions of people in every state, 24/7. It's a recipe for weird stories. We don't know what the new year will bring, but 2010 saw some jawdroppers. In an effort to...

04 Jan

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AuntMinnie.com | January 4 - Medicare payments for diagnostic imaging to nonradiologist physicians -- especially cardiologists -- have surpassed payments to radiologists, according to a new study published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology. David Levin, MD, and colleagues from...

03 Jan

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The Washington Post | January 2 - Nearly three out of five people said in a recent Associated Press-GfK poll that people who paid into the system deserve their full benefits - no cuts. But an updated financial analysis shows that the amount workers have paid does...