When practices submit price matches all SWON members benefit! Thanks to the watchful eyes of our members, SWON participating practices are driving down drug costs.
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Lord of the Files
Visit the official blog for guests and subscribers of the Oncology Manager's Briefcase.
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Contact Us
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Melissa Welch
Southwest Oncology Network
6921 Shoreview Drive
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SWON to Partner with Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy
May 14, 2010 -- Southwest Oncology Network (SWON) is very pleased to announce that we have entered into partnership with Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy (DSP), a national specialty pharmacy based in Flint, Michigan. The partnership creates a dedicated specialty pharmacy team, SWONRx, that provides various levels of clinical, financial & reimbursement support services to SWON member practices and your patients undergoing oral treatment regimens.
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Texas doctors opting out of Medicare at alarming rate
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Texas doctors are opting out of Medicare at alarming rates, frustrated by reimbursement cuts they say make participation in government-funded care of seniors unaffordable.
Two years after a survey found nearly half of Texas doctors weren't taking some new Medicare patients, new data shows 100 to 200 a year are now ending all involvement with the program. Before 2007, the number of doctors opting out averaged less than a handful a year.
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Doctors' Medicare payouts to be cut 21% June 1
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- For the fourth time this year, doctors face a potential huge cut in the fees that the government pays them to treat Medicare patients.
Physicians will be hit with a 21% cut in Medicare reimbursements as of June 1, unless lawmakers decide to patch over the issue -- as they've done for years. Congress is now debating the matter, and to stop the cut lawmakers would have to vote to pass a new patch sometime in the next two weeks.
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Suggested Reading |
HIPAA Plain and Simple:
A Compliance Guide for Healthcare Professionals
By Carolyn P. Hartley, Edward D. Jones
(as described on amazon.com)
HIPAA Plain and Simple: A Compliance Guide for Health Care Professionals is a valuable, must-read resource for frontline patient interaction. The guide simplifies the complex HIPAA regulations for those in the medical office who have direct patient contact or are responsible for safeguarding patient information. Each chapter contains "what to do" and "how to do it" directions to help every employee learn what it means to be HIPAA compliant and how to achieve compliance. This resource includes:
- Descriptions and analyses of HIPAA components, including the final security rule
- Charts, graphs and timelines
- At-a-glance lists
- Easy to understand procedures
- Scenarios for discussion
- A month-by-month HIPAA training program
- An internal and external HIPAA communications plan
- 10 CEUs from AHIMA This book has been approved for 10 continuing education units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Health Information Management Association.
- 5 CEUs from AAPC This book has been approved for 5 continuing education units for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the American Academy of Professional Coders.
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