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On July 28th, a report was sent to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from the Inspector General’s office that will have widespread attention in the near future. And it’s without question a physician issue, not a hospital one. If you’re a doctor it will affect your wallet or purse, so you might want to know this.
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Continue ReadingThe annual conference of the American Association of Medical Society Executives (AAMSE) was held this year in Seattle, Washington July 21-24th. The nearly 300 attending executives represented medical societies with memberships of a few hundred to several thousand physicians each. Needless to say, these were some very sharp professional people with their fingers on the pulse of physician concerns. . . . [one of the concerns] was that the “highly sophisticated data mining technology” mentioned by President Obama earlier this year was no idle threat. The belief was that probably most physicians either don’t know about it or underestimate just how effective it is. Hospitals are finding out. Physicians are about to.
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Continue ReadingJust when you think you’ve got a handle on this RAC thing, here comes another alphabet soup acronym – ZPIC. You gotta to hand it to CMS – they really know how to cook ‘em up! ZPICs are not to be taken lightly.
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