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• 2010 “Final” (?) Medicare Fee Schedule Released – 21.2% Reduction in Physician Fees

  Thanks to the American Bar Association’s Physician Interest Group for the following summary of the “final” Medicare Fee Schedule issued today.    Unless Congress acts, the 21.2% statutorily mandated reduction of overall physician fees will be…

• More on the "doc fix" mess

  Thanks to NPR for this summary, which was reproduced by the American Health Lawyers Association Congress is at an impasse over how to fix a perennial problem in Medicare. Just about every year a formula…

• Strange Bedfellows

  The uneasy alliance between the AMA and Senate Democrats is starting to look a bit frayed.  Apparently, Senator Reid took the “doc fix” legislation to a vote based on what he understood to be assurances…

• Senate Postpones Vote On Medicare "Doc Fix"

  Thanks to the American Health Lawyers for this summary, dated October 19, 2009.Senate Democrats have postponed a scheduled cloture vote today on a bill that would make permanent changes to scheduled rate cuts to Medicare…

• U.S. Treasury Strips

  All About Strips                                               Stewart Farnell, Ph.D, CFP®   Boulder, CO   Bonds called Treasury Strips have buttressed many portfolios during the recent stock market downturn. As fear replaces greed as the driving force in the market,…

• My last commercial, I promise!

                     It has been a long time coming, but I have finally completed my training, and have registered with the State as a Registered Investment Advisor.  My new firm, Pennsylvania Physician Advisors, Inc., will focus…

• My Beach Vacation

  Pardon the personal entry – the weeks’ events just needed  reporting somehow.           My wife, in the spring, asked me if I thought a beach vacation would be a good idea.  She found a ‘cheap’…

• Class Action Complaint Alleges EHR Provisions in Stimulus violate HIPAA

  A registered nurse has filed a class action lawsuit in the Southern District of New York claiming that certain provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“ARRA”) (the new stimulus legislation enacted in February)…

• Selling your Practice to the Hospital

  Here are a few considerations when you are selling your practice to a hospital: ·       Covenant not to compete.  This is really an employment agreement issue, but sometimes they try to stick it in a…

• Summary of Kathleen Sebelius address to American Health Lawyers Assoc. Annual Meeting

  Thanks to Ann Bittinger, of the Bittinger Law Firm, for this summary of highlights of today's session at the American Health Lawyers Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.    "Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Department of…