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Behind the numbers: Salary survey dishes up hot physician issues
Deb Beaulieu
Despite its narrow title, Medscape's Physician Compensation Report 2012 reveals much more than how much doctors are earning. In fact, the online survey of 24,216 physicians
Interview: Physicians need to make time to discuss unnecessary care
Deb Beaulieu
Physicians and patients today are for the first time viewing a list of 45 tests and procedures that members of nine different specialty societies have identified as being
Doc groups pinpoint top sources of unnecessary care
Nine physician specialty societies collectively representing about 375,000 physicians nationwide, this morning released a list of five procedures or tests for each of the nine specialties that they
ACP aims to limit excessive testing
Both physicians and patients should use a more critical eye in determining whether certain diagnostic tests might do more harm than good, Dr. Steven E. Weinberger, executive vice president and CEO of
Excellus BCBS airs funny ads to cut avoidable ER visits
More than 40 percent of emergency room (ER) visits--amounting to 700,000 visits a year--in upstate New York are avoidable, concludes an analysis from Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, so the insurer
Unnecessary tests cost $6.8B in care
Unnecessary tests ordered by physicians led to at least $6.8 billion worth of misplaced health spending, reports FiercePracticeManagement. A new study led by physicians from the Mount Sinai Medical
Docs spend $6.8B in unnecessary care
Physicians order at least $6.8 billion worth of unnecessary tests for their patients each year, most of them during patients' annual physical exam. That's the conclusion of a study not from
Insurers encourage less-costly ER alternatives
Research shows that up to 20 percent of emergency room (ER) visits could be diverted to less-expensive retail sites, so health insurers like Anthem, UnitedHealth, and Kaiser Permanente are
Teach consumers about prices, see reduced healthcare costs
When a doctor diagnosed me with a knee condition 10 years ago and recommended surgery, I went home and searched online to find information about the problem, its symptoms, and steps I could take to
Insurers' 20% error rate costs $1.5B
Commercial health insurers have an average claims processing error rate of 19.3 percent, which leads to $1.5 billion in unnecessary administrative costs, writes FierceHealthcare editor Karen M.
