2012 Physician Compensation Survey Data

States are limiting AI in coverage decisions. How billing teams can cite the laws on appeal, and why self-funded plans fall outside them.

The survey revives a stalled bill that would end the physician agreements practices maintain for the nurse practitioners they employ.

Most Medicaid improper payments trace to missing paperwork, not fraud. These nine checks close the gaps auditors keep finding.

Payers deny with AI while practices appeal by hand. Taya Gordon on retiring 30-day AR buckets, the benchmarks to watch and a quick downcoding check.

From payer contract homework to a 15-minute morning huddle, these are the moves practice administrators can make after four days of sessions and interviews at MGMA's centennial meeting.

An IDR win isn't a check. Payers have 30 days to pay, courts won't force them to and CMS admits awards are slipping through.