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Making RVUs Meaningful in 2021, Upcoming Webinar Hosted by Practical Data Solutions Share Article In this free webinar, the featured speakers will discuss the significant changes CMS brought to the healthcare industry regarding RVUs in 2021. The webinar will focus on how to model data to organizational and industry standards so that practices can quickly understand whats changing, whats working, and what needs improvement. Today, one set of Work RVUs and Total RVUs is not enough given todays CM...

Mar 6, 2021 8:15am A New York doctor allegedly ignored repeated warnings and prescribed "massive" quantities of opioids and other drugs that killed five patients and endangered the lives of six others, according to authorities. (Getty/BackyardProduction) A New York physician is facing second-degree murder charges linked to his opioid prescription practices, according to Nassau County authorities. George Blatti, M.D., 75, was arraigned March 4 before Judge Fran Ricigliano on five counts of mur...

Medicare physician services spending declined by $9.4 billion in the first half of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new AMA report said.

Jan 12, 2021 12:33pm In many rural areas, broadband remains too expensive, unreliable or simply not available at the speeds required to enable innovations in care. (Getty/ehrlif) The Trump administration is doling out $8 million to improve broadband access for rural telehealth services. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded the funding to the Telehealth Broadband Pilot (TBP) program. That program will assess the b...

One big bad guy here? is it doctor/patient unity? or a number of different ones? who are you eyeing? >> i think that what youre seeing primarily are these corporations that have purchased these physician practices. so what we find, for example, is when theres a physician practice. for example, theyll buy an emergency room practice. right? then what happens is theres a lot more surprise billing. the cost of reimbursement rate goes up. and the expenses go up. so a lot of this surprise billing is b...