Summer 07

Anesthesia: Hospital Revenue Guarantees Become More Prevalent: Over the past few years we have seen an increasing trend toward hospitals subsidizing their anesthesia practices.- View Newsletter

2007 Pathology & Radiology Medicare Reimbursement Changes: Most physicians are aware that in December 2006 Medicare had initially intended on implementing a 5% reduction to its conversion factor and “in the eleventh hour” congress rescinded the reduction and voted to freeze the conversion factor for 2007 at the 2006 level. - View Newsletter

Increased Radiologist Productivity – The 2006 Efficiency Analysis Report: In 2004, PPMC prepared its first radiology efficiency analysis. We recently updated this analysis based on 2006 data that included 15 radiology groups serving 19 sites of service in Northern New England. - View Newsletter