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Issue Date: July 2003
Quiet Campaign Designed to Raise Malpractice Awareness
This article discusses the steps physicians and medical societies in some states, especially Pennsylvania, are taking to address the medical malpractice insurance crisis.
Hospitals Should Strengthen Physician Relations
This editorial discusses the importance of hospitals cultivating the type of relationships with physicians that create the business advantages necessary for both to prosper.
Specialty Practice Feels Effects of Medical Malpractice Crisis in Florida
This article discusses the impact of the medical malpractice insurance crisis in Florida and the steps one urologist is taking to effect tort reform.
Groups Find Advanced Access Effective
This article discusses how a family practice implemented the advanced access model of care and the results of doing so.
Chronic Disease Program Cuts Costs
This article discusses how an eight-physician practice in Lake City, Minn., implemented a disease management program and the benefits of that program to both patients and the practice. The practice received an award for excellence in health care from the American Medical Group Association for the program.
Physicians in Primary Care Face a Crisis, Says Physician in Rural NC
In this interview, Donald Copeland, MD, a primary care physician in North Carolina, discusses the need to reform the reimbursement mechanism of the health care system so that primary care physicians are appropriately compensated for the care they provide. He also discusses many other issues, including medical malpractice insurance, HIPAA, and the partnering of physicians with hospitals.
Quality Indicators to Affect Practice
This article discusses the American College of Rheumatology's efforts to promote the use of quality indicators among rheumatologists.
Rewards Offered for Quality Care
This article discusses a program to promote improvements in the quality of care being delivered to patients who have cardiovascular disease or who have suffered a stroke. The program is being developed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the American Heart Association, and the American Stroke Association.
Contractor, Hourly, Salaried: Is Your Practice Getting It Right?
This article discusses when and why physicians should classify their employees as independent classifying staff correctly.
The Who, What, and Where Aspects of Compliance
This editorial discusses the March 2003 change by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the Medicare Coverage Issues Manual regarding ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, as well as the importance of physicians ensuring that they classify and pay their staff correctly to avoid legal repercussions.
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