2012 Medicare Report Shows Glaring Errors For the first time in 30 years, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released detailed payment data. The CMS is reporting at least $44 billion in improper payments that may include fraud and billing errors. The report also exposed seven instances in which physicians without medical licenses—lost to gross malpractice—were paid a total of $6.5 million. Medicare has been on the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s “high-risk” list since 1990; a list that was created to spotlight government agencies with serious weaknesses. For more information, go to: bloom.bg/1nzcGuU Marketing Tip #47: Go back through your past blog posts and make sure you only have one call to action. Google penalizes posts that are too “marketing” oriented. e Physician’s News Brief May 2014 A new congressional report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is showing that healthcare providers in rural areas make more money than physicians in cities. A separate study, by Web MD site Medscape, shows that the Southeast region, specifically, has the highest national average salary for doctors. One explanation for the delineation in average salaries may be a 2003 Medicare act that increased pay rates for physicians in rural areas. For more information, go to: on.mgmadv.com/S2obP0 Dr. Joshua Landy, co-founder of application Figure 1, claims that he got the idea for the physician- based app after seeing medical students share data, in an unsecure fashion, through social media. Figure 1 is a way for doctors to share knowledge with any other physician across the globe without divulging protected health records. e newest version also allows for more robust personal profiles as well as the ability to follow and comment on unique medical cases. For more information, go to: tcrn.ch/1itdO1x New Studies Show Where Physicians Make Most Money A New App Claims to be the “Instagram for Doctors” U.S. CEOs Want International Tax Reform Citing the growing fascination and over-indulgence of their codeine infused cough syrup, pharmaceutical company Actavis has shut down their production of the potentially deadly narcotic. e cough syrup, also known as “sizzurp” in pop-culture communities, has been linked to the death of several musicians, and has also been linked to luminaries such as Justin Bieber. Overuse of the product can lead to “difficulty breathing, coma, and in some instances, seizures and death”. For more information, go to: dailym.ai/1fBT6GI www.PLIGofSJ.com
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2012 Medicare Report Shows Glaring Errors
For the first time in 30 years, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have released detailed payment data. The CMS is reporting at least $44 billion in improper payments that may include fraud and billing errors. The report also exposed seven instances in which physicians without medical licenses—lost to gross malpractice—were paid a total of $6.5 million. Medicare has been on the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s “high-risk” list since 1990; a list that was created to spotlight government agencies with serious weaknesses. For more information, go to: bloom.bg/1nzcGuU
Marketing Tip #47: Go back through your past blog posts and make sure you only have one call to action. Google penalizes posts that are too “marketing” oriented.
The Physician’s News BriefMay 2014
A new congressional report by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is showing that healthcare providers in rural areas make more money than physicians in cities. A separate study, by Web MD site Medscape, shows that the Southeast region, specifically, has the highest national average salary for doctors. One explanation for the delineation in average salaries may be a 2003 Medicare act that increased pay rates for physicians in rural areas. For more information, go to: on.mgmadv.com/S2obP0
Dr. Joshua Landy, co-founder of application Figure 1, claims that he got the idea for the physician-based app after seeing medical students share data, in an unsecure fashion, through social media. Figure 1 is a way for doctors to share knowledge with any other physician across the globe without divulging protected health records. The newest version also allows for more robust personal profiles as well as the ability to follow and comment on unique medical cases. For more information, go to: tcrn.ch/1itdO1x
New Studies Show Where Physicians Make Most Money
A New App Claims to be the “Instagram for Doctors”
U.S. CEOs Want International Tax Reform
Citing the growing fascination and over-indulgence of their codeine infused cough syrup, pharmaceutical company Actavis has shut down their production of the potentially deadly narcotic. The cough syrup, also known as “sizzurp” in pop-culture communities, has been linked to the death of several musicians, and has also been linked to luminaries such as Justin Bieber. Overuse of the product can lead to “difficulty breathing, coma, and in some instances, seizures and death”. For more information, go to: dailym.ai/1fBT6GI
www.PLIGofSJ.com
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