All 119 PQRI Measures Have Been Built Directly Into athenaNet and National Client Base Workflow to Help Maximize Participation and Reimbursement Under Expanded Program athenahealth, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHN), a leading provider of internet-based business services to physician practices, today announced that athenaNet(r), athenahealth’s centrally-hosted, on-demand practice management and EMR services network, now incorporates all 119 new […]

http://www.democratandchronicle.com Sandra Parker, Scott Ellsworth and Dr. Brad Berk Guest essayists Retaining and recruiting the physicians we need to provide the quality of health care we expect has been a pressing issue here for several years. But through open and honest discussions, based on facts and data rather than anecdotes, the stakeholders in local health […]

Blue Cross measure aims to slow runaway costs, improve quality of healthcare By Alice Dembner Globe Staff Massachusetts’ dominant health insurer is proposing to overhaul the way it pays doctors and hospitals, in what company officials said is an attempt to slow runaway healthcare costs and improve the quality of care. Blue Cross and Blue […]

http://www.chron.com By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press Writer © 2008 The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new report says the number of medical malpractice claims in Ohio dropped 20 percent from 2005 to 2006. The report released Tuesday by the Ohio Department of Insurance says there were 4,006 medical malpractice claims reported for 2006, compared […]

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Last year, Gov. Ed Rendell devised a way to provide coverage for Pennsylvanians who lack health insurance, and now he’s found a better way to pay for it. Right now, 767,000 state residents do not have access to health insurance. The vast majority of them are working, many of them piecing together two […]

http://community.advanceweb.com Many of the opponents to the new PA clinical doctorate degree echo a similar sentiment: “If you want to be a doctor, go to medical school.â€? It’s impossible to deny that wisdom. But there’s a problem, of course. PAs can’t go to medical school without going all the way back to square one and […]

http://www.insurancejournal.com New Jersey Banking and Insurance Commissioner Steven M. Goldman reported that the state began sending subsidies of $16.4 million last month to eligible medical practitioners in certain high-risk specialties. The subsidy payments are being distributed to nearly 1,200 physicians under a program that seeks to ensure affordable medical care for New Jersey residents in […]

Financial Problems Stem From Increased Labor Costs and Upswing in Uninsured Patients. According to New Report from HealthLeaders-InterStudy NASHVILLE, Tenn.-HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of healthcare market intelligence, reports that physicians and hospitals continue to feel the effects of the New Orleans’ struggling medical delivery system. According to the newly released New Orleans Market Overview report, […]

From Staff Reports Cumberland Times-News http://www.times-news.com In light of a new study that shows Maryland has a growing shortage of doctors in clinical practice, Western Maryland Health System officials say the local situation is better than the region as a whole. WMHS has added 23 new physicians to the community during the past year. “Although […]