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In 2006, Massachusetts became the first state to pass healthcare reform and its law served as a model for federal reform last year.

A bill introduced in the Rhode Island House of Representatives would require health insurers to reimburse doctors at least 125% of Medicare rates.

As an independent practice owner, your revenues, and therefore your livelihood, come almost exclusively from insurance reimbursements and direct payment from your patients.

Weight loss services can produce new revenue streams that may offset, at least partially, stagnant or declining income from existing services, while helping patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular risk, high levels of cholesterol and other medical issues tied to obesity.

Selling a medical practice to another physician or partnership in advance of retirement can be a thorny and emotionally trying undertaking.

Medical societies want more flexibility in meeting the meaningful use requirements of the electronic health record incentive program.

In 2006, Dennis J Egitto, MD, who practices in Florida, considered switching to a concierge model.

Determine how to value the stock of a multispecialty clinic.

Is your practice using social media? Twenty percent of your patients may be doing so, and social media may be a way that you can reach them?and others.

Where does your group stand in transitioning to the new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Version 5010 electronic standards? If you?re like the majority of respondents to a recent Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) survey, it?s facing significant challenges in this effort.

A well-designed automated patient identification and outreach program can motivate those who have gaps in care to have their treatment needs addressed, according to a peer-reviewed paper published in Population Health Management.

Are you or any of your patients among the 5 million people who, according to a new white paper from accounting firm Kaufman, Rossin & Co., have been affected in the 166 incidents of data breaches since September 2009?

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wants the obese and smokers to pay a $50 fee to enroll in the state?s Medicaid program.

Your older patients with low health literacy are likely to be in worse health and face a higher risk of death, concludes a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service?s (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

If you?re seeing fewer patients, it might be because the high costs of health insurance and healthcare are causing more Americans to go without care, according to a new study.

Learn alternatives to IRAs to invest for retirement.

Medical malpractice reform, also called tort reform, needs to be on the front burner of healthcare reform.

Get necessary details on how to sell a solo practice.

Physicians traditionally have allowed insurance companies to dictate the terms of their contracts.

An effective growth strategy for your medical practice should begin with a comprehensive review of the practice's business plan.

Determine how to be appropriately compensated for combination of services provided.

A doctor's sick note always has been regarded as a serious document.

Although legislatures in six states are considering bills allowing psychologists to prescribe psychotropic medications, physician groups say that it's a bad idea.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission urged lawmakers to boost physician pay by 1% in 2012, despite a rate cut set to take effect the same year.

Know how to protect your financials from a malpractice lawsuit.

A spree of specialty- and hospital-based practice acquisitions in 2010 by national corporations such as IPC and Mednax may have some physicians wondering whether the days of publicly traded practice management companies, similar to those in the 1980s and 1990s, will return.

Going cash-only in your practice means getting out of the insurance-billing business and collecting from patients.

Stress is a constant presence in the workplace and never more than in economic times such as these.