The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has alerted the American Medical Association that the agency has released updated national Medicare physician payment files that incorporate the changes in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. Specifically, in response to concerted advocacy by organized medicine, Congress reduced the 4.5% cut to Medicare physician payment by increasing […]

Please review the information below regarding the surgical technologists who need to be grandfathered in for certification by the Board. 54.1-2956.12. Registered surgical technologist; use of title; registration. A. No person shall hold himself out to be a surgical technologist or use or assume the title of “surgical technologist” or “certified surgical technologist,” or use […]

via AMA An examination of cost data for the South Mississippi system’s accountable care organization (ACO) revealed that care provided by nonphysician providers working on their own patient panels was more expensive than care delivered by doctors. This prompted Hattiesburg Clinic leaders to redesign the clinic’s care model and to publish their findings. Hattiesburg Clinic […]