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This month we would like to know...
Do you think that the economy is starting to recover based on what you are seeing in your practice?
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| Latest Results |
| February Web poll results |
| What year do you plan to achieve meaningful use of electronic health records at your practice? |
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| 2011 |
52% |
| 2012 |
12% |
| 2013 or after |
11% |
| Never |
26% |
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By James F. Sweeney
The long-running uncertainty over the future of your Medicare reimbursements isn't likely to end anytime soon. Read full article. |
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Florida doctors soon could soon be seeing caps on medical malpractice awards made to Medicaid patients, as the state legislature appears ready to approve a bill limiting damages paid by doctors and hospitals in such cases to $300,000. Read full article.
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Online communication with patients is ready for primetime Read full articles.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) added telehealth services for 2011. What are the new codes? Read full article.
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Two codes were created for reporting the oversight of warfarin therapy by the CPT Editorial Panel, which carefully created protections in the code that would prevent work from the anticoagulation management being used to support a specific level of E/M service. Read full article. |
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If you're like most physicians, you don't devote significant time to providing expert testimony. And even if you recognize the importance of expert testimony, you may not be accustomed to the adversarial nature of the proceedings or the need not only to make a case but also to make it persuasively. Read full article. |
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We Want to Hear from You!
Are you hoping to qualify for meaningful use of electronic health records this year? If so, we would like to interview you about your experience for an upcoming article. Please contact Senior Editor Morgan Lewis Jr. at morgan.lewis@advanstar.com. or (440) 891-2638. Please contact us at medec@advanstar.com. if you are a PCP limiting your practice to a different specialty (such as just doing dermatology), or especially if you work for specialists in a single field. (For example, a family physician working in an orthopedist's office.) |
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We're looking for a few good writers/speakers who would like to write and talk about Primary Care at a Crossroads, or who would like to be part of our Voices of Primary Care Board and receive periodic surveys asking you how things are going—and how you feel they should be going. For more information please see From the Editor notes from editor-in-chief Tara Stultz
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