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Round 2
Methodist Counting on CON Process Changes Being Adopted July 8
OLIVE BRANCH—Undaunted by the Mississippi Legislature's inaction on certificate of need legislation that would have allowed Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare to build a 100-bed hospital in Olive Branch, leaders at the Memphis-based healthcare system are ready to try again.
LYNNE JETER |
Fighting Obesity
AHA Prepares for Go Health Challenge
Because Mississippi has the highest rate of obesity in the nation, the American Heart Association (AHA) is focusing on building awareness about decreasing the rate of childhood obesity in the metro Jackson area.
LYNNE JETER |
Spirited Women Celebrated
NMMC Honors Difference-Makers
TUPELO—At the Spirit of Women awards luncheon held in mid-May, North Mississippi Medical Center (NMMC) honored three spirited women who have become difference-makers in the northeast region of Mississippi.
LYNNE JETER |
Implementing the Second Phase of Stark IV: A Glimpse of What's Ahead
The Stark Law, also known as the physician self-referral law, prohibits a physician from making referrals to an entity with which the physician (or an immediate family member) has a financial relationship for the furnishing of designated health services ("DHS") that may be covered by Medicare unless an exception applies. Since the Stark Law was first passed in 1989 to prohibit physician referrals for clinical laboratory services, Congress has expanded the law to prohibit self-referrals for ten DHS and to grant the Secretary the authority to issue advisory opinions determining whether DHS referrals are prohibited under the self-referral law.
RICHARD CIRILLI & LANE STAINES |
Wesley Medical Center Celebrates Pine Belt's Strong Women
HATTIESBURG—On a crisp spring day in late May, Wesley Medical Center honored more than 100 Hattiesburg-area women who have exemplified strong leadership, perseverance, mentorship, promise and defense of others at the fourth annual Celebration of Strong Women luncheon at Lake Terrace Convention Center.
LYNNE JETER |
Taking Preventive Measures for Children
Diabetes Foundation Launches New Statewide Awareness Campaign
When children are laughing and playing in the summertime, it's difficult to imagine that anything could be wrong. Yet a startling and frightening number of Mississippians do not recognize the warning signs and risk factors associated with diabetes and generally do not believe that infants, toddlers and young children may develop the disease.
LYNNE JETER |
Are You Ready For RAC Audits?
Welcome to RAC.
Recovery Audit Contractors ("RAC") is a new program being instituted nationwide by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") to detect and correct past improper payments (over- or under-payments) made on claims of health care services provided to Medicare beneficiaries, and to prevent future improper payments.
JULIE B. MITCHELL & PHILIP J. CHAPMAN |
Moving it up a Notch
Mississippi's Family Health Care Clinic Improves Quality of Healthcare via e-Network Upgrade
Mississippi's Family Health Network recently implemented a unified system encompassing electronic medical records (EMR) and practice management (PM) to better coordinate patient care and to provide cost-efficient, high quality medical/dental services to Mississippians regardless of their ability to pay.
LYNNE JETER |
Urgent and Emergent
Nation's Trauma & Emergency System Nears Breaking Point
Congress is currently considering two pieces of legislation that many leaders in trauma care and emergency medicine consider a lifeline for their respective specialties. Without intervention, these professionals fear a time will come when a call for emergency care cannot be answered.
CINDY SANDERS |
Bruce Hirshman, DO
Between the cane, the slight limp and the squint-eyed scowl, there was little doubt whom Bruce Hirshman, DO, was suggesting as he stood before physicians and physical therapists at the Methodist Pain Management Center in Flowood.
LUCY SCHULTZE |
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