Family Doctors Sue CMS, RUC Over Alleged Price Fixing
A 74-page law suit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Maryland by six Georgia physicians, claims that the…
House Health Reform Bills Lengthy Reading
Two bills recently advanced in the House will be coming up for debate in the near future. The first is…
A Preview of Health Reform Battle
It is clear that the final vote on health reform is far from certain. The recent setback demonstrated that Democrats…
Doctor Medicare Payments a Political Football
Once again physicians are being used as a political football by the entrenched politicians in the Congress. While physicians are…
SGR vote in Senate on Monday being closely watched by physicians
For many years Congress has avoided dealing with a nagging problem that has plauged Medicare and physicians - the SGR…
Massachusetts has highest health insurance premiums . . . model for U.S. ?
Massachusetts found out that expanding coverage was relatively easy, sort of. Paying for it is not. Why? Because the vast…