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Baucus unsure permanent SGR fix is within reach

Although Democrats have pushed to permanently replace the Medicare physician payment formula as part of extending a package of expiring tax cuts, a senior Democrat indicated Tuesday that a permanent fix was unlikely....

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I'm Not a Doctor: Physician Affairs Blog

by Andis Robeznieks

Making a hashtag of it in the physician world

As someone who has Googled "AMGA" in search of the American Medical Group Association only to find the American Meat Goat Association's website...

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Looking at value

Andis Robeznieks | February 04, 2012
While healthcare's finest minds continue to wrestle over how to measure quality, the National Quality Forum lit a match near another potential powder...
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Mending the pay patch

Rich Daly | January 28, 2012
Lawmakers hashing out yet another temporary patch to prevent big cuts in Medicare's pay for physicians may have a narrow window to scrap the entire...
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‘It can't get any worse'

Andis Robeznieks | January 21, 2012
Mostly all their owners can do is sit and wait.
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Largest academic medical centers

Modern Healthcare | January 21, 2012
A list of the nation's 25 largest academic medical centers, ranked by the total number of residents and interns based on Medicare cost report...
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