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  2. Independent practice association - Wikipedia

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    Physician's Management. 19, no. 1: 42–6. 2002. "LATE - REGULATORY PRECEDENT - The FTC OKs a Deal That Would Allow a Physician Independent Practice Association to Contract with Health Plans on Behalf of Its Competing Physicians". Modern Healthcare. 32, no. 8: 6.

  3. Capitation (healthcare) - Wikipedia

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    Physicians and other health care providers lack the necessary actuarial, underwriting, accounting and finance skills for insurance risk management, but their most severe problem is the greater variation in their estimates of the average patient cost, which leaves them at a financial disadvantage as compared to insurers whose estimates are far ...

  4. Physician mortgage loans: A mortgage option for doctors - AOL

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    1,500 / $4,000 = 37.5%. Conventional mortgages usually have DTI ratio limits of 36 to about 45 percent. The rationale is that if you have too many other financial obligations, there’s a risk ...

  5. Relative value unit - Wikipedia

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    Before RVUs were used, Medicare paid for physician services using "usual, customary and reasonable" rate-setting which led to payment variability. [2] The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 enacted a Medicare fee schedule, and as of 2010 about 7,000 distinct physician services were listed. [ 2 ]

  6. List of professional designations in the United States

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    Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant: COTA: State licensure; National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapists [60] Physical Therapy Assistant: PTA: State licensure Certified in Public Health: CPH: National Board of Public Health Examiners Medical Laboratory Scientist: MLS: American Society for Clinical Pathology: Medical ...

  7. American Academy of Physician Associates - Wikipedia

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    The Duke University Physician Assistant Program was established in 1965 as the first formalized PA program in the United States and graduated its inaugural class in October 1967. In April 1968, the recent graduates of the Duke PA program, along with current students, began organizing a professional organization, incorporating as the "American ...

  8. Wisconsin Physicians Service - Wikipedia

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    It is the most popular Wisconsin-based Medicare supplement plan in the state, with more than 42,000 members, based on enrollment data submitted to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, 2015. In 1966, the year Medicare was established, WPS was named the Medicare administrator for the state of Wisconsin.

  9. Physician assistant - Wikipedia

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    The occupational title of physician assistant and physician associate originated in the United States in 1967 at Duke University.The role has been adopted in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, India, Israel, Bulgaria, Myanmar, Switzerland, Liberia, Ghana, and by analogous names throughout Africa, each with their own nomenclature and ...