Medicare physician reimbursement – The Treating Physician

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MACRA…An Open Letter to Andy Slavitt

Posted on November 21, 2016 1:50 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

I am not a physician, so have no credentials to be telling the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) how to run hospitals, much less physicians how t...

big business medicine/health care reform/reducing health care costs

CPC+, The New “Better” Physician Reimbursement from CMS

Posted on September 14, 2016 3:08 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is constantly coming up with ways to cut payments to physicians in the name of improving health care qualit...

health care reform/Medicare "fraud"/physician-patient relationship/simplistic solutions to complex problems

Medicare and Physician Reimbursement

Posted on November 19, 2012 1:22 pm by dhaugen / 0 Comment

When physicians apply to become a “provider” for insurances (that is, are accepted into the provider network, something required before receiving pa...