HEALTHCARE ENTERPRISE: For NuSirt Biopharma, Less is More

Nov 06, 2014 at 01:32 pm by Staff

Company Looks to Enhance Pharmaceutical Effectiveness While Lowering Dosages In the last few months, Nashville-based NuSirt Biopharma has initiated its first clinical tria.... Read More

Medical Groups, Area YMCA Collaborate to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

Nov 06, 2014 at 01:32 pm by Staff

This fall, the American Medical Association, along with the YMCA of Middle Tennessee, the Tennessee Medical Association and the Tennessee Nurses Association, held a summit fo.... Read More

National Campaigns Urge Physicians to Image Gently, Wisely

Nov 06, 2014 at 01:32 pm by Staff

A concerted effort to eliminate unnecessary medical procedures is underway across America, and radiology experts are taking a lead role. One such initiative is the Choosing.... Read More

Interventional Radiologist Dan Wunder Keeps the Focus on Quality of Life

Nov 06, 2014 at 01:32 pm by Staff

Many people mistakenly think radiology is used solely for diagnoses … not for life-enhancing procedures … but Dan Wunder, MD, is quick to disagree. “I use cutting-edge techno.... Read More

ALS & the Ice Bucket Aftermath

Oct 03, 2014 at 06:33 pm by Staff

Three words … Ice Bucket Challenge. Never before has a cause gained such momentum or so quickly saturated social media as the awareness campaign for amyotrophic lateral scle.... Read More

Medicare Math

Oct 03, 2014 at 06:33 pm by Staff

… Or How a 2.3 Percent Raise Became a 3 Percent Reduction At first glance, the FY-2015 revision of the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS) by the.... Read More

PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: : Dr. Thomas Lavie Knows the Healing Power of Art

Oct 03, 2014 at 06:33 pm by Staff

Psychiatrist Thomas Lavie, MD, and abstract expressionist artist Willem de Kooning are both well acquainted with loss and new beginnings. At age 22, de Kooning left his home.... Read More

Local Experts Weigh in on Hospital Reimbursement

Oct 03, 2014 at 06:33 pm by Staff

Let’s talk reimbursement. Hospitals have absorbed $121 billion of new cuts since 2010, including $2.1 billion in uncollected debts. In 2012, the American Hospital Association.... Read More

Direct Pay Business Models Changing Reimbursement Landscape

Oct 03, 2014 at 06:33 pm by Staff

Remember when medicine revolved around patient care rather than ICD codes? While the days of country docs trading chickens for childbirth are long past, the simpler practice.... Read More

MedSolutions Selected to Participate in CMS Bundled Payments

Oct 03, 2014 at 06:33 pm by Staff

MedSolutions, a diversified healthcare cost management company based in Franklin, recently announced it has been selected to participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medic.... Read More