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Patients want it, you can bill for it, but you can't store it. It's your time.

Medicare is now telling doctors to update their electronic funds transfer information.

You should review your portfolio balance once a year.

Medical school taught me little about drug and alcohol addiction and treatment, and residency taught me even less.

Consider certain variables when deciding whether to prepare your own taxes or to have it done.

Know how to bill for glucose monitoring, penicllin shots and new patients

Massachusetts, the only state that requires its citizens to hold health insurance, held hearings in March about lower health insurance costs.

An IRS rule limits how much highly compensated employees contribute to qualified retirement plans relative to non-highly compensated employees.

In diagnosis cases, you don't have to be right, but you do have to be reasonable.

In postmenopausal women, a low-fat diet has little effect on cardiovascular risk factors and no overall effect on coronary heart diseae and stroke.

In tough economic times, with fewer people seeking medical care because they've lost insurance coverage or they're hoarding spare cash, attracting new patients and keeping established patients takes on increasing importance.

Non-compete clauses are enforceable in most jurisdictions.

Disability companies are competing for your business again.

Fear of inflation is one of the leading topics among clients currently.

Most women don't exercise enough during pregnancy to meet expert recommendations.

A high peripheral neutrophil count is a useful predictor of CVD risk in postmenopausal women.

Throughout the healthcare reform process, the AMA remained actively engaged in an effort to ensure that the physician voice was heard.

Family medicine residency training programs this year attracted 101 more U.S. medical school graduates than in 2009, while internal medicine saw smaller growth in its primary care programs, according to National Residency Match Program.

Family and general internal medicine doctors each generate more than $1.6m in net revenue on behalf of their affiliated hospitals, according to a new study.

The Little Clinic, which operated in 8 states, reported that it would close 30 locations and exit 5 U.S. markets, according to an industry firm.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a monumental step toward providing Americans with affordable coverage, but there are uncertainties, according to the American College of Physicians.

Anemia increases the risk of death in patient who have had a heart attack and coronary angioplasty, according to new research.

From 1999 to 2009, compensation in academic practices continued to trail that in private practices, according to an MGMA survey.

Ask what you are getting for your practice in terms of your future as an employee and your exit strategy.

Home telemonitoring plus active medication management by a nurse practitioner resulted in greater reductions in A1C than did a monthly care coordination telephone call in patients with type 2 diabetes in a study reported in the March issue of Diabetes Care.

Your patients with chronic disease may use the Internet less than your other patients and also may remain more strongly connected to you and other offline sources of medical assistance, including friends, family, and books, compared with your other patients.

A new white paper released by the Department of Health and Human Services? Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology highlights five options and recommends additional research in relation to consumer consent possibilities for electronic health information exchange.

Remote monitoring reduced the median time to clinical decision compared with standard in-office follow-up for patients with cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, according to results of the prospective Clinical Evaluation of Remote Notification to Reduce Time to Clinical Decision trial recently released during the American College of Cardiology annual meeting.