Business/Tech

Analysis of Cerebrovascular Accidents and Malpractice Claims

May 30, 2022 at 11:09 am by Staff

Shelley Rizzo, MSN, CPHRM, Senior Patient Safety Risk Manager, The Doctors Company Because a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) can happen in any healthcare setting, it is impera.... Read More

Betting on ‘Golden Age’ of Colonoscopies, Private Equity Invests in Gastro Docs

May 30, 2022 at 10:52 am by Staff

By Emily Pisacreta and Emmarie Huetteman, Kaiser Health News Mariel needed a new gastroenterologist. Having just moved back to San Antonio, the 30-something s.... Read More

Burned Out by Covid and 80-Hour Workweeks, Resident Physicians Unionize

May 30, 2022 at 10:24 am by Staff

By Sarah Kwon, Kaiser Health News In the early weeks of the pandemic, Dr. Lorenzo González, then a second-year resident of family medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical.... Read More

State Doctors Debate Healthcare Policies at TMA Annual Meeting

May 26, 2022 at 03:57 pm by Staff

Tennessee’s Top Advocacy Organization Announces 2022-2023 Officers NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Medical Association assembled nearly 130 of its physician m.... Read More

Physician Compensation on the Rise as Data Reports Pre-Pandemic Levels of Stability  

May 25, 2022 at 07:40 pm by Staff

  MGMA's 33rd annual DataDive Provider Compensation reveals greater productivity after challenging few years Following the financial impacts that the COVID-19.... Read More

Xtend Healthcare achieves HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year Certification to further Mitigate Risk in third-party Privacy, Security, and Compliance

May 25, 2022 at 07:29 pm by Staff

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. -- Xtend Healthcare, a leading healthcare revenue cycle management company, today announced that, Prism, its proprietary suite of applications and i.... Read More

AMA Says Health Insurance Industry Continues to Falter on Prior Authorization Reform

May 24, 2022 at 09:18 am by Staff

  Survey shows reform goals are unfulfilled after nearly four years despite heavy toll on patients CHICAGO - Despite mounting evidence that insurer-imposed authorizatio.... Read More

AMA Announces CPT Update for Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

May 23, 2022 at 08:19 pm by Staff

Provisional codes assigned to Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for young childrenThe American Medical Association (AMA) has announced an editorial update to Current Procedural Te.... Read More

Ascension Saint Thomas River Park Granted Approval to Open Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

May 23, 2022 at 02:09 pm by Staff

  The Tennessee Health Services and Development Agency (HSDA) granted Ascension Saint Thomas River Park approval of its Certificate of Need (CON) application to open a C.... Read More

Why So Slow? Legislators Take on Insurers’ Delays in Approving Prescribed Treatments

May 22, 2022 at 10:52 pm by Staff

By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News Andrew Bade, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes nearly two decades ago, is accustomed to all the medical gear he needs to kee.... Read More