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Issue Date: August 15, 2002
Doctor Finds Online Consults Produce Income, Questions
Doctor Visit Identifies Systemic Illness
This editorial discusses the high cost of malpractice insurance and some of its ramifications to physicians.
Physicians Face Increased Federal Scrutiny Under OIG Work Plan
This article discusses the federal government's intention to step up its fraud prevention efforts targeted at physicians. It also looks at the Office of Inspector General's work plan and how this document can be used to indicate where the government plans to focus its efforts each year.
Strategies to Promote Growth
This article discusses some strategies of high-performance physicians to foster practice growth, including raising patient volume by increasing both patient satisfaction and physician productivity.
Systems Will Ease Administrative Burdens, Futurist Predicts
This article discusses the reluctance of physicians to incorporate new technology into their practices; it suggests that by doing so, they will achieve greater efficiency and productivity by streamlining administrative procedures.
Despite Predictions, Physician Work Force Will Grow, Researcher Says
In this interview, Richard Cooper, MD, a hematologist and director of the Health Policy Institute at the Medical College of Wisconsin, discusses the growing demand for health care services and the ramifications of that demand to the economy and to the physician work force.
Merger Affords Strategic Benefits and Negotiation Leverage
This article discusses the merger of two rheumatology groups in Minneapolis-St. Paul to form a nine-physician single specialty group. It also lists steps to take when doing a merger.
Volume-Outcome Link Questioned
This article discusses the results of a study on the volume-outcome relationship in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The study results suggest that low-risk patients will have similar outcomes regardless of institutional CABG procedure volume.
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