Where Will Reform Take You? How will you and your practice fare in a reformed healthcare market? We surveyed the experts for clarity on what's changing, what's not, and how it's all likely to affect you. Healthcare Reform Timeline The Affordable Care Act includes several initiatives that will impact the way physicians operate and change their everyday business practices. Here is a year-by-year outline of the biggest benchmarks that will affect physician practices.
Understanding Medicare's New Annual Wellness Visit Medicare is offering beneficiaries a new once-a-year wellness visit. This new benefit, which was part of health reform, is popular with patients but is confounding practices that are trying to schedule and bill for it. Here's some help. Podcast: Accountable Care Organizations and Your Practice In a live question-and-answer session, Greg Mertz with The Horizon Group recently explored ACOs, their possible impact on medicine in the United States, and what your practice should be doing now to prepare for changes in health delivery.
Are ACOs Really the Way to Go? Does Ezekiel Emanuel's hyper-confidence in ACOs' ability to solve all of our healthcare problems border on laughable?
Does Medicaid Hurt the Poor? The healthcare reform law intends to expand access to Medicaid by raising its income caps. In so doing, it will extend access to life-saving care to millions of people. But will that strategy work?
The Overrated Mandate
Unless the Supreme Court overturns the entire health reform law, it won't matter much. Health reform can survive without the individual mandate. Here's why.
Medicare Fraud and Abuse and Your Practice
The government is getting more aggressive — a lot more aggressive —in going after possible fraud. Here's how to keep your practice out of legal hot water.
Unless the Supreme Court overturns the entire health reform law, it won't matter much. Health reform can survive without the individual mandate. Here's why. More »
The government is getting more aggressive — a lot more aggressive — in going after possible fraud. Here's how to keep your practice out of legal hot water. More »
Should you join an accountable care organization? It's important for physicians in community-based practices. Here's what you need to know about this emerging care-delivery model. More »
Thanks to new federal initiatives and the increased use of smart phones and tablets, more physicians are communicating with each other while on the go. More »
