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MGMA-ACMPE: Align meaningful-use, eRx requirements

The MGMA-ACMPE, formerly the Medical Group Management Association, is seeking a six-month extension of the deadline for submitting hardship exemptions to avoid penalties associated with federal e-prescribing requirements....

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I'm Not a Doctor: Physician Affairs Blog

by Andis Robeznieks

The doctor is not dead and yada, yada, yada

Before Jerry Seinfeld started writing jokes and appearing on television, there were doctors and scientists named Seinfeld writing medical research...

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Weighing the options

Rich Daly | May 12, 2012
An overhaul of the Medicare physician payment system is again on Congress' agenda, but it remains unclear as ever whether the latest efforts will...
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Booster shot

Andis Robeznieks | May 12, 2012
The prospect of states receiving nearly a total of $12 billion for 2013 and 2014 to boost Medicaid payments to primary-care physicians has been...
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Video News Short: MGMA-ACMPE's Dr. Susan Turney talks ACOs, reform and reimbursement (3:13)

Modern Healthcare | May 12, 2012
Dr. Susan Turney, president and CEO of the MGMA-ACMPE, sat down with Jessica Zigmond, Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief, to discuss the...
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Stalled progress

Joseph Conn | April 28, 2012
Adoption of electronic health-record systems remains higher among large physician groups and hospitals than among smaller ones, according to two...
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