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Medical Society Says Pay Reform Group Misses Mark | National Commission on Physician Payment Reform, Louisiana State Medical Society, Dr. Van Culotta, Dr. Bill Frist, fee for service, Affordable Care Act.
Medical Society Says Pay Reform Group Misses Mark
A few of the National Commission on Physician Payment Reform’s recommendations, such as paying the same rates for the same services regardless of setting,...
TED GRIGGS

Heart to Heart | Ochsner Medical Center, Louisiana Doctors, Louisiana healthcare, Louisiana hospitals
Heart to Heart

Ochsner implants first total artificial heart in Gulf South

In December, a man in his 40s was admitted to Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans with biventricular heart failure. He had been surviving on two...


LISA HANCHEY

IT Acceleration | Dr. Bill Hefley, Dr. William Franklin Hefley Jr., Steve Pierce, MedEvolve, Medical Business Services, OrthoSurgeons.
IT Acceleration

MedEvolve finds ‘sweet spot’ niche providing PM and EMR software and RCM services to physician practices nationwide

LITTLE ROCK – When Bill Hefley, MD, was a junior partner at a Little Rock orthopedic practice more than two decades ago,..


LYNNE JETER