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As a primary care physician, you're also a business person, with at least some responsibility for managing the practice's finances, and all the responsibility for managing your own.

Only 14% of patients get their medical records electronically from their physician?s offices, and 30% don?t know why they would need to do so, finds a new report by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Health Research Institute. The finding has implications for you and your peers in practices and organizations that hope to reap federal stimulus payments.

One community planned a 1-day screening event for the 14,000 homeless who live on the streets and in shelters in Houston, Texas.

More than 21,000 providers registered for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs in January, and four states reported initial Medicaid incentive payments totaling $20.4 million.

A New Jersey Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate is paying for a population care coordinator for primary care practices as part of a patient-centered medical home pilot program that compensates practices using bundled payments.

Of the 2,212 individuals who participated in the American Osteopathic Association Intern/Resident Registration Program, 74% of students and recent graduates successfully matched for a total of 1,640 placements.

Medicare permits participation by practice site so that you can participate and accept Medicare 100% of the time at one location and not another.