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MGMA: HITECH provision puts unnecessary burden on practices

A new provision under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act places an administrative burden on physician practices that could discourage them from adopting electronic health record systems, according to the Medical Group Management Association.

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Physician's Focus: Understanding the State of Coding in 2010

As a physician, how can you ensure you obtain the greatest revenue for the work you're doing this year? The answer: Optimize your earnings by optimize communication with your coding and billing staffs. By getting to the bottom of some of the complexities of this year's coding, you can work better with coders and billers to solve coding challenges and develop workflows to increase revenue and compliance.

Saying no to Medicare

Physicians in every specialty, in every city and town, in every state in the country lament almost daily the reimbursement levels and other frustrations associated with caring for Medicare patients.

Finding joy in practice

The goal is to not only find joy in your daily practice, but also outside of it. Learn from the stories of various medical professionals as to how they've captured joy in practice and beyond.

Career contentment

What would it take to make your job more satisfying?

Staffing: How will new technologies affect your need for personnel?

For busy clinicans, new technologies promise savings in time as well as costs—in theory. But in practice, is this actually true? The jury is still out, as Medical Economics found out.