Medical Economics Digital Edition - 08/25/2012

Medical organizations offer reactions to the final rule CMS published Nov. 4.

Signing bonus repayment, malpractice tail coverage, lopsided notice periods and unpaid productivity pay can make leaving an employed position expensive. An analysis of 200 physician contracts shows what to check before you sign.

Free Medical Economics Practice Academy virtual event on Nov. 19 brings together experts sharing advice you can use right now.

The top news stories in medicine today: A Tennessee multi-physician practice agrees to pay $2.8 million to resolve allegations it billed nonphysician practitioners' services under physicians' provider numbers; CDC data show an early start to flu season; cannabis use is tied to higher stroke odds in an American Heart Association abstract.

Most physicians face a 2.31% conversion factor cut in January, while CMS pared back its same-day payment reduction and pushed the end of traditional MIPS to 2031.

It appears a record number of doctors won election or re-election in the 2026 mid-terms. Here's who they are.

A pediatrician won a Senate seat in South Carolina, an OB-GYN lost one in Kansas, and South Dakota voters kept Medicaid expansion in their constitution.

Medication bottles, witness accounts and a patient's normal baseline are often lost between the ambulance bay and the hospital bed. Here's what to ask at handoff, how EMS can separate observation from interpretation and why better prehospital record integration matters.