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October 2011

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Find us at MDNews.com. NOW ON THE MDNEWS NETWORK AHA LEADERSHIP SUMMIT THE MD NEWS Network cameras were in San Diego recently for the American Hospital Association's Leadership Summit. Visit MDNews.com and search "Leadership Summit" to see the coverage, including interviews with the AHA's "Most Wired" Award winners on how they fostered technology at their facilities. PEER PERSPECTIVE Medical Claims Payments "About 23% of claims are paid at a rate of zero … for a number of reasons, but that means that the physician practice has to sort out those reasons, resubmit those claims and fi nd out why they were denied. If we had a fair and transparent process, we wouldn't have to be spending health care re- sources tracking payments that are owed to the physicians who perform the services." — Barbara McAneny, M.D., American Medical Association's Board of Trustees Do you have an opinion on this or another health care-related topic? Visit MDNews.com/Contact and select "Peer Perspective" to tell us what you think and become part of the national conversation.

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