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		<title>Implications of Portfolio Withdrawals for Physician Investors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obtaining Income in a Low Interest-Rate Economic Ecosystem
By Jeffery S. Coons; PhD, CFP®
Managing Principal-Manning &#38; Napier Advisors, Inc 
The general trend of declining interest rates experienced over the last decade and a-half, part of a long-term trend Manning &#38; Napier Advisors, Inc. had focused on since the early 1980&#8217;s, created new challenges for managing investment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prescription Data-Mines and Insurance “Credit-Reports”</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The End to &#8220;Rx&#8221; Privacy? 
Staff Reporters
Collecting and analyzing [HIPAA protected?] personal health information [PHI] in commercial databases is a fledgling, but exploding industry, despite privacy concerns. 
Industry Leaders
For example, Milliman’s IntelliScript provides personal drug profiles to insurers. And, Ingenix’s MedPoint is owned by UnitedHealth, the corporation that owns UnitedHealthCare. UHC is also the nation&#8217;s second-largest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Improving Inter/Intra Professional Relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Establishing Rapport within the Medical Community
By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™
Publisher-in-Chief
By Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA, CMP™
Managing Editor
In our consulting work, publishing, speaking engagements and relate professional endeavors, we are often asked how to establish and even increase professional visibility in a particular medical, or even alternative-medial community.
While there is no-one-size-fits-all answer, the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eroding Doctor-Patient Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Bed-Side Manner&#8221; Deterioration Continues
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A growing chorus of discontent suggests that the once-revered doctor-patient relationship is on the rocks. 
Results
About one in four patients feel that their physicians sometimes expose them to unnecessary risk, according to data from a Johns Hopkins University [JHU] study published in the journal, Medicine, while two recent studies show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative Medical Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credibility and Physician Referrals  
By Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™
Publisher-in-Chief
By Hope Rachel Hetico; RN, MHA, CMP™
Managing Editor
As a member of the Board of Directors, Anthony Robert “Tony” Narushka DC of Poland recently commented on the founding of the Polish Chiropractic Association [PCA]. Comments, largely private, have been interesting and prompted us to post this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicare GAO Report on Radiology</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prior Imaging-Authorization Suggested
Staff Reporters
As reported in the Wall Street Journal, on July 14, 2008, Medicare may be soon requiring prior authorization to curtail unnecessary utilization of CT scans, MRIs and other forms of medical imaging, a new Government Accounting Office [GAO] report suggests.
The Medicare Report 
To cut imaging costs, Medicare has been reducing certain physician [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patients Challenging Medical Invoices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Root Cause is Money, Failure-to-Disclose and Frustration
Staff Reporters
Patients are challenging their medical bills with lawyers and lawsuits, out of frustration about the lack of up-front disclosure over costs by doctors and hospitals.
Involve More than a Few Cases 
For example, after being charged $82,282 for a 23-hour stay in doctor-owned Westfield Hospital for two operations on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physician Malpractice Liability Immunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free Charity Medical Care?
Staff Reporters
Sen. Mike Enzi [R-Wyoming], the senior Republican on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee [HELP], recently introduced legislation that would allow physicians and other medical professionals to volunteer their services at charity clinics and community health centers free from medical liability concerns.
Query
What is your opinion on this idea, given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reining In the Tax Collector</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IRS Restructuring and the Reform Act
Staff Writers
The “IRS Restructuring and Reform Act” is finally helping some professionals like doctors protect themselves from tax liens and levies
Prior to the Act
Before the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act went into effect almost a decade ago, matters concerning tax liens or levies were routine at the IRS, causing serious [...]]]></description>
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