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Los Angeles-based Alpine Physician Partners, in implementing Ambience Healthcare's clinical AI technology to support scribing, coding, CDI and patient summaries, saved an average 3.4 hours per day on documentation, Kilgore News Herald reported Oct. 2. 

Many physicians have voiced concern about the impact of ongoing reimbursement declines and rising inflation on the ability to keep independent practices afloat. 

The 2023 final MIPS performance-year scores have been released. The deadline to ask CMS for an informal review of scores is Oct. 11. Here are six things to know:

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Physicians in the Mid-Atlantic region were more dissatisfied with private payer reimbursements than their counterparts in other parts of the country, according to Medscape's 2024 "Physician-Private Payer Relationship Report. "

Contract negotiations between University at Buffalo (N.Y.) resident physicians and their employer are stalled again after a four-day strike earlier in September, CBS affiliate WIVB reported Sept. 25. Here are five things to know: 

Just 15% of physicians say that prior authorization "peers" deserve that title, according to an Aug. 30 survey by the American Medical Association. 

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