Appealing Your GIC Tier Designation: What Physicians Can Do

1/6/2012

in the report. If there are outliers, point out those out and request that they be removed from your rating …

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Medicare ACOs: Shared Savings Regulations (pdf)

1/5/2012

an Initial Benchmark (a) Growth Rate as a Benchmark Trending Factor (b) National Growth Rate … Shared Savings (1) Minimum Savings Rate (a) One-Sided Model (b) Two-Sided Model (2) Quality … Performance Sharing Rate (3) Additional Shared Savings Payments (4) Net Sharing Rate (5) Performance …

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Directory of Interpreter and Translation Services

12/29/2011

Organizations both in Massachusetts and across the country that provide medical interpreter services.

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Hotel Rates Corporate 2011 (pdf)

8/23/2011

Hotel Rates Corporate 2011 (pdf) … MMS/NEJM Corporate Hotel Rates 2011 MMS/NEJM Corporate Hotel Rates Embassy Suites … Waltham/Boston (781)890-6767 550 Winter Street Waltham, Ma 02451 Special Seasonal Rates …

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PHS Annual Report 2011 (pdf)

8/10/2011

shows a 98.8% compliance rate with these meetings (347 expected monthly meetings, 343 took place …

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Sample Patient Experience Survey Report (pdf)

12/17/2010

the global rating item “Willingness to Recommend to Family and Friends”. Sample sizes were … the eight summary measures and global rating item as compared with the state mean. This section also … measures and global rating item. Appendices Your report also contains supplemental …

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Optimizing Workflow to Maximize Practice Efficiency Opportunities (pdf)

11/5/2010

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Health Plans Pay-For-Performance (pdf)

10/20/2010

Copyright 2009, Massachusetts Medical Society. All Rights Reserved. Page 1 of 15 Health Plans Pay-For-Performance Programs: A Resource for Your Practice Pay-For-Performance (P4P) programs vary by health plan. This chart contains a summary of Massachusetts health plan P4P programs by clinical standard, measure, and ben

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Health Plans Fee Schedule Updates (pdf)

10/20/2010

Health Plan Fee Schedule Updates Page 1 of 5 Copyright 2009, The Massachusetts Medical Society. All Rights Reserved. Health Plan Fee Schedule Updates: A Resource for Your Practice Massachusetts health plans’ may make changes in their fee schedules at different times throughout the year. This guide includes fee schedul

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Institute of Medicine Study on Geographic Variations in Medicare (pdf)

9/17/2010

wage rates for practice personnel, including registered nurses, accounting specialists and secretaries … in Massachusetts at a rate two to three times faster than the national average (see Table 1 below ….  4    Table 1. Average Hourly Wage Rates in Massachusetts and the US in 2009 …

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