By SUSAN ALLEN Staff Writer http://www.rutlandherald.com Many Vermont physicians are concerned about bureaucratic hassles that interfere with patient care, low reimbursement rates and other problems they face in trying to provide medical care, according to an informal survey of 300 of Vermont’s primary care doctors. So significant are the challenges, the survey found, that some […]

Anne Thrower http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com A top official with the American Medical Association will visit Pensacola today and discuss his desire for a fundamental shift in the way employees get health insurance. Dr. Cecil B. Wilson, chairman of the AMA board of trustees, is scheduled to speak at the Escambia County Medical Society’s annual inauguration ball. He […]

http://www.northcountrygazette.org New York continues to see a decline in physician supply in the Finger Lakes and Western New York, despite overall gains statewide, according to a new study by the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University at Albany’s School of Public Health. The report, Annual New York Physician Workforce Profile 2006, also finds […]

http://home.businesswire.com The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) unveiled a new program today that will recognize physicians and chiropractors who give superior care to the approximately 30 million Americans who suffer from back pain. The Back Pain Recognition Program (BPRP) will identify high-quality physicians and chiropractors who take a patient-centered approach to back pain using […]

By: Katie Allison Granju, Producer http://www.wbir.com Recent changes to TennCare will take treatment decisions away from doctors and put them in the hands of insurance companies, critics say. Doctors now have to provide the “least costly” treatment that is “adequate” for their TennCare patients, under new rules that went into effect last month but will […]

http://home.businesswire.com HIMSS 2007 Annual Conference MicroMD PM, the practice management software from Henry Schein Medical Systems, received the highest rating for user satisfaction in the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM) survey of medical office managers and physician group practice administrators. MicroMD PM, a Windows-based, client/server practice management system used by medical groups […]

The Insurance professionals only source for News MediSys Corporation (Pink Sheets: MDYS) today announced that an article titled “The Incredibly Shrinking Payment” that appeared in the January 2007 issue of Physicians Practice magazine, further validates the need for physicians to increase revenues. The article reported that the average physician reimbursement from commercial insurance payers and […]

http://www.surgicenteronline.com Physician practices will soon have new online resources to help enhance patient safety. The Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET), the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) have received a grant from The Commonwealth Fund to develop three educational, Web-based tools for physician practices. The tools, titled […]

http://www.murfreesboropost.com Three physicians, George Smith, Steve Smith and George Hester, along with community volunteer Buck Bouldin, were honored at the annual MD Gala Friday night in the MTSU James Union Building’s Tennessee Room. Dr. George Smith was named Physician of the Year; Dr. Steven Smith, Clinical Excellence Award; Dr. Hester the Olin Williams Distinguished Service […]