How to steer clear of fraud and abuse
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Hospital administrators may expect to wait for interpretation of the recently-passed Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act by the Office of the Inspector General of the Dept of Health & Human Services. The waiting period will probably exceed the proposed 60-day limit on answering such questions as possible fraud and abuse in the terms of hospital joint ventures with doctors, for example. Some healthcare professionals fear the new law, which provides higher fines for Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1996
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Pay-block time: primary care practices became the decade's hot properties, thanks to managed care. Salaries soared - but what escalates must moderate
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Primary care physicians had raises of 7.5% per year during the early 1990s due to major increases in health plan enrollments which decreased to 1.4% in 1996. Specialists also had high salaries during the early 1990s but an overabundance in certain specialties and lower payments by health insurance companies caused a decrease in salaries. Physicians' salaries have stabilized in the late 1990s.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1997
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A strategy in plain sight: PhyCor says clues to its surprise purchase of MedPartners were there all along
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PhyCor's purchase of its much larger rival MedPartners in Oct 1997 initially surprised industry observers, but several factors indicated the buyout was probable. PhyCor had announced its intention to become a national player in the physician practice management market. MedPartners was also rumored to be having difficulty handling its many business lines, and that managers wanted to sell out.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1997
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