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29 Jul 2019, 1:37 pm by Emily Burchfield, Guest Author
As physicians in the workplace are tending to move away from working in solo practices, we are finding that hospital, health system and other corporate employment agreements containing non-compete clauses are becoming more prevalent. [read post]
Those who have signed up, besides paying lower premiums, have their $350 annual in-network deductible waived (up to $1,400 per family), pay no co-payments for treatment of any of the seven chronic conditions and pay lower co-pays for prescriptions for those conditions. [read post]
19 Jul 2019, 6:00 am
I explained that these practices worked like a gym membership, with monthly dues granting 24/7 access to a physician. [read post]
1 Jul 2019, 11:48 am by opedit
” In a nutshell, balance billing equals more medical debt for consumers who use “in-network” hospitals who in turn employ “out-of-network” medical staff. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 7:54 am by Jordan Ross
The new contract between Highmark and UPMC extends Highmark customers’ in-network access for another 10 years and applies to all facilities/physicians in western Pennsylvania. [read post]
25 Jun 2019, 7:11 am by Deb Givens
  In blocking the merger of Anthem and Cigna, two dominant health insurers that operated across the country, 11 different states joined the Department of Justice’s lawsuit. [read post]
18 Jun 2019, 5:30 am by Bill Marler
To improve surveillance, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists has recommended that all L. monocytogenes isolates be forwarded to state public health laboratories for subtyping through the National Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Disease Surveillance (PulseNet). [read post]
31 May 2019, 1:30 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
   The Retreat is unique among bioethics meetings in that experts in medicine, philosophy, law, and health policy are invited from around the world to present their current research projects. [read post]
24 May 2019, 10:46 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also is widely recognized for her extensive work and leadership on leading edge health care and benefit policy and operational issues including meaningful use and EMR, billing and reimbursement, quality measurement and reimbursement, HIPAA, FACTA, PCI, trade secret, physician and other medical confidentiality and privacy, federal and state data security and data breach and other information privacy and data security rules and many other concerns. [read post]
19 May 2019, 2:30 pm by Andrew Murray
In March, a Philadelphia physician pleaded guilty to federal charges for illegally selling prescriptions for opioids to patients who had no medical need for the drugs. [read post]
 Moreover, stakeholders – which include employers, patients, physicians, hospitals and insurers — are likely to be sharply divided on potential remedies, such as holding patients harmless for charges, banning balance billing, limiting reimbursement rates for out-of-network providers, prohibiting out-of-network/in-network distinctions for emergency care, and requiring binding arbitration to resolve disputes between payers and providers. [read post]
9 May 2019, 6:01 am by Amber Walsh
As younger physicians enter into private practice, they are less interested in the hassle of owning their own practice and more likely to seek out employment by a large group (either a physician group or hospital-based group). [read post]
6 May 2019, 5:44 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans, their sponsoring employers and unions, insurers, fiduciaries, administrators, insurers and other service providers should learn from the $3 million lesson a Franklin, Tennessee-based diagnostic medical imaging services provider is learning about the heavy penalties a health plan, health care provider, health care clearinghouse  or business associate  (“Covered Entity”) risks if a post-data breach investigation by the U.S. [read post]
1 May 2019, 6:00 am
The Insurance Company agrees to list the Provider as an “in network” Provider and promote that Provider to their panel. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 11:01 pm by Neil Schoenherr
” She served as the institute’s scientific case manager, managing each rare disease patient’s genome sequencing data and health data and interacting with patients, researchers and physicians around the world. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 10:23 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans must deliver electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) to electronic applications or software (“apps”) used by plan members, and are responsible under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules for the security of electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) on apps they sponsor or provide, according to new guidance from the Department of… [read post]
25 Apr 2019, 5:35 am by Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman
The health care industry is coming under increasing fire for the high number of birth injuries that occur each year in the United States. [read post]
We worked on nearly 200 healthcare matters involving multispecialty academic medical centers, hospital systems, small and large physician practices, small and large health insurers, and biotech and pharmaceutical companies. [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 10:00 pm
This amendment must be in writing.While a PTP is responsible for your overall health care after a workplace injury, a secondary physician is not. [read post]