| American Medical News 1993 Julie Johnsson |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| Advisory group urges HCFA to plug gaps in RBRVS. (advisory group of the American Medical Association, Health Care Financing Administration; resource-based relative value scale for physician reimbursement) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| AMA to push wider use of relative values. (American Medical Association favors resource-based relative value insurance payment system) | Health | Howard Larkin, Julie Johnsson |
| Antitrust relief coming, but what kind? (antitrust legislation permitting mergers, networks and other types of health care organizations) | Health | Brian McCormick, Julie Johnsson |
| Brother, can you paradigm; creative doctors can get on top of health system changes. (includes related articles on integrated health care delivery systems and American Medical Association legal and financial services for members) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Certificate-of-need revival targets doctors. (state approval of high cost equipment purchase) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Conquering the contract dragon: don't let the jabberwocky of a managed care agreement fool you. Make sure you know your risks before signing. (physicians' practice) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Feds look for fraud, abuse in practice sales. (Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General)(physicians' practices) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Feds widening probe of doctor recruitment. (Department of Health and Human Services' Inspector General's Office and Internal Revenue Service investigate hospital physician recruitment) (includes related articles on acceptable incentives and a chronology of important events) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Global budgets: massive change in pay, practices. (per capita spending for health care) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Government health spending soars. (Medicare and Medicaid spending) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| HCFA chief dumps Medicare carrier. (Health Care Financing Administration; King County Medical Blue Shield) | Health | Mike Mitka, Julie Johnsson |
| HCFA: U.S. hospitals can reject Mexican transfers. (Health Care Financing Administration, Mexican patients) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| HHS, HCFA appointees may open way to price controls. (Department of Health and Human Services; Health Care Financing Administration) | Health | Sharon McIlrath, Julie Johnsson |
| HHS probe questions hospital expenses, but investigators' motives also under fire. (Health and Human Services Department) | Health | Mike Mitka, Julie Johnsson |
| High Medicare outpatient costs may spur rules. (physicians may be performing outpatient procedures in surgical centers they own) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Hospital converts defense technology to save lives. (Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, California, initiates program to develop medical uses for military technology) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Hospitals binge on practice buy-outs. (physicians sell private practices to hospitals)(related article on why doctors are selling) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Hospitals fear scrutiny over recruitments, doctors pay. (includes related article) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Impending reform threatens Medicare hospital update. (hospital prospective payments) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| IRS taking close look at hospital-based, 'independent' doctors. (Internal Revenue Service) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| IRS targets doctors' role in integrated systems. (Internal Revenue Service) | Health | Mike Mitka, Julie Johnsson |
| 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 |
| Legal or not, hospitals still paying for practice goodwill. (hospitals who buy a physician's private practice)(includes related article) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Medicare carrier efficiency ratings are down in 1992. | Health | Mike Mitka, Julie Johnsson |
| Medicare cuts target graduate medical education. | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Medicare Part B growth slumps in 1992; low 5.3% increase may be linked to RBRVS; Part A up 15.8%. (Part A and B expenditures; Resource-Based Relative Value Scale for physician compensation) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Medicine pauses at the price: split on cost control, doctors strive to prove they're ready for reform. (Health System Reform: the Stakeholders, part 6) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| New IRS scrutiny of hospital-doctor compensation. (Internal Revenue Service examines incentives and other physician compensation) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Nuclear waste gridlock risks research, ups treatment cost. (nuclear waste stored at Detroit, Michigan's Henry Ford Hospital) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Nurses strike, claim care is threatened. (Saint Joseph Medical Center, Joliet, Illinois) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| PHOs: friends or foes? (physician-hospital organizations)(includes related articles) (Vertical Integration) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Price caps threatened to 'cure' cost shifting. (health care reform) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Proposed rules would protect doctors under risk contracts. (Medicaid and Medicare risk contracts) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| RBRVS still creating hassles in Medicare claims processing. (resource-based relative value scale payment system) | Health | Mike Mitka, Julie Johnsson |
| Reform panic: doctors, hospitals rush to integrate services. (includes a related article on partnerships in the health care industry) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
| Who's afraid of vertical integration; Detroit doctors fear 'big 3' network many run over them. (large managed care conglomerate composed of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, Henry Ford Health System and Mercy Health Services poses competition to physicians) | Health | Julie Johnsson |
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