Nurse practitioner and pharmacy technician are among the most sought-after healthcare jobs this year , according to a salary guide from staffing firm Randstad US.
More Hospitals Sue HHS Over Outpatient Site-Neutral Payments
Thirty-eight hospitals filed a lawsuit against HHS over a $380 million reduction in Medicare reimbursement to hospitals under a new outpatient site-neutral payment policy. The lawsuit alleges that...
Is the ACA (Affordable Care Act) Really Going Away?
As you have probably heard by now, a federal judge in Texas, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 struck down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as unconstitutional...
Building a Better Electronic Health Record No Easy Task
On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a complicated patient admitted overnight with chest pain, and after the first bits of the history have been presented, the wise old cardiology...
2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Is HPI No Longer a Clinical Component?
Since the release by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Final Rule, many of us have been scurrying around trying to...
