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Survey: Docs report rocky relationship with payers
Doctors facing a changing practice environment are unhappy with most large health payers, according to the 2014 Medscape insurer ratings report.
Docs respond to soaring CEO pay
Healthcare CEO pay is skyrocketing, with the pay of the top 500 American executives tripling since the early 1990s. But how do doctors feel about these numbers, which vastly outweigh their own compensation? Medscape Multispeciality finds out.
Despite compensation drop, radiology earnings still high among specialties
Radiology pay may have declined last year, but it remains the fifth-highest compensated medical specialty according to a new survey.
Study: Medical calculating apps accurate, reliable
Most smartphone-based medical calculation apps--those that calculate the severity or likelihood of disease-based clinical scoring systems--provide accurate and reliable results that "can...
Why patients won't sue doctors
Medscape examines three reasons why patients may not sue doctors after a bad outcome,
Study: More resources needed for surgical-site complications
In their quest to reduce and prevent hospital-acquired infections, hospitals have focused most of their attention on central-line-associated infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections but not on the most common of all--surgical-site complications, according to a new study presented at IDWeek 2013 and reported by Medscape.
3 reasons you should settle a malpractice case
If it hasn't happened already, odds are that at some point in your career you will be hit with a malpractice suit. Your instinct may be to fight, but years of litigation may not be the best decision. A recent article from Medscape outlines several reasons that settling may be the better (or only choice):
Practice costs continue to outpace reimbursements
The pressure on medical practices to cope with rising operating costs is not just one of perception, but based on real, staggering numbers.
EHR corrections can cause new mistakes
Correcting errors in electronic health records can be trickier to deal with than correcting errors in paper records, according to Georgette Samaritan, senior risk manager and patient safety consultant with Atlanta-based MAG Mutual Insurance Company.
WebMD medical director: How practice leaders can thwart physician burnout
As FiercePracticeManagement reported previously, a 2012 survey published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that nearly one in every two U.S. physicians has experienced at least one symptom...
