| American Medical News 1993 Greg Borzo |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| AMA board backs broader use of RBRVS. (American Medical Association; Resource Based Relative Value Scale for Medicare physician reimbursement) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| AMA proposes spinoff of allied health accreditation. (American Medical Association, Council on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Bare-bones insurance off to slow start. (health care reform) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Blues begin processing other carriers' claims. (national Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is developing an electronic network to process the health insurance claims of other carriers) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Blues expands transplant network, adds new procedures. (Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, organ transplant network) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Clinton offers doctors a 'new bargain' for reform. (Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses American Medical Association's 1993 Annual Meeting) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Computerized patient record network not far off. (report from the Work Group on Computerization of Patient Records) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Computerized patient records taking hold, but slowly. | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Computers that understand speech soon common in ED. (the emergency department of a hospital) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Delegates: cancel CLIA, dump data bank. (American Medical Association asks for National Practitioner Data Bank and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 to be terminated) | Health | Greg Borzo, Wayne Hearn |
| Doctor-created system promotes medical records database. (Universal Medical Records Services, developed by Steven C. Cohn) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Doctors face new restrictions on billing for supplies. | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Doctors may have to amend deductions for home offices. | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Federal mandates not cause of Medicaid cost explosion. | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Fees for physician services increasing at slower rate. | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Honoring a vanishing breed - the country doctor. (physician Josephine Newell has set up a Country Doctor of the Year Award program in connection with her Country Doctor Museum) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| How doctors are coping. (with relative value scale payment systems for Medicare) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Income guaran-tease. (hospitals' income guarantee agreements can mislead doctors) (includes directory of compensation information sources) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Income survey spotlights image problem. (survey shows that Americans think that physicians should earn less) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| It's almost time - a Clinton reform preview. (Clinton's health care reform plan to be released) | Health | Brian McCormick, Sharon McIlrath, Leigh Page, Janice Somerville, Harris Meyer, Greg Borzo, Julie Johnsson, Wayne Hearn, Linda Oberman |
| Leaving private practice? Becoming an independent contractor could bring freedom and cut hassles; but you might sacrifice income. (includes related income tax considerations) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Liability rates likely to inch up during 1993. (professional liability premiums) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Locum tenens evolving into local placement service. (temporary physician replacements; includes related article) (The changing face of medicine) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Medicaid waiver plan could spur innovations. (streamlining the application process for state Medicaid waivers as an aid to health care reform) | Health | Rebecca Voelker, Greg Borzo |
| More patients using EDs for nonemergency problems. (Emergency Department) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| National standard could boost electronic claim filing. (American National Standards Institute sets standard; includes related article on the Health Care Financing Administration's efforts to require hospitals to file electronically) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| New codes would cover supervision of home infusion. (codes would allow physicians reimbursement for supervising home infusion patients)(includes related article on home infusion demographics) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Physicians fighting back as states turn to provider taxes. | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Physicians set up, buy into Iowa health plan. | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Pooling your purchasing power. (group buying) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Probes prompt MD salary disclosure at U. of Minn. (physician salaries at the University of Minnesota) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Quality assurance prenatal systems reduce risk for OBs. (obstetricians) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| RBRVS: expectations meet reality in first year of payment reform. (relative value scale payment systems; Medicare) | Health | Mike Mitka, Bill Clements, Greg Borzo |
| Ready or not, EDI is coming. (electronic data interchange)(includes related articles) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Reform or not, insurers see changes ahead. (health insurance) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| States trying managed care now, rather than waiting for reform. | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Streamlining Medicaid waivers is no easy task. (system for states to receive exemptions from Medicaid rules in order to implement health care reform) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Study hits physician fees for workers' comp in Calif. (workers' compensation) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Survey confirms doctors not satisfied with RBRVS. (Resource-Based Relative Value Scale; includes related article on medical care codes) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Targeting high-billers: what it means and what you should do when Medicare singles you out. (Medicare evaluates the billing practices of physicians) | Health | Greg Borzo |
| Watching and waiting. (emergency room observation units; includes related articles) | Health | Greg Borzo |
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