As the healthcare world has become more complex and the requirements on a physician’s time more onerous, the seemingly routine task of medical referrals has gotten to be increasingly challenging.

The medical “referral” is, of course, part and parcel of the everyday work of our nation of specialized health care providers. Exclusive referral arrangements in which, for example, a group ...

Referrals of hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) to postacute medical care facilities are commonly rejected. We linked all electronic referrals from a Boston safety-net hospital in ...

Referral patterns by family physicians affect numerous aspects of medical care. This study compares the outpatient referral rates of residents, residency faculty, and clinical faculty. Objectives: ...

EKRA stands for the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, and it has become a prominent enforcement tool against fraud in the healthcare and medical testing industries. Although the law was developed ...

SAN FRANCISCO - November 17, 2010 - When referring patients, physicians are more likely to call another provider or give patients referral information rather than exchanging details of the patient's ...

INDIANAPOLIS - Individuals are frequently referred by their primary care physician to medical specialists -- oncologists, orthopedic surgeons, cardiologists, or dozens of others -- but for a ...

Physician referrals are an important strategy for most medical practices to gain patients. In fact, as I've seen with my clients, many practices hire dedicated physician liaisons to build ...

Pathologic Evaluation of Total Mesorectal Excision: Big Brother Is Watching THERE WAS A TIME when the benefits of chemotherapy and the practice of medical oncology had still not made a deep impression ...

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J., May 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Authentidate Holding Corp. (Nasdaq:ADAT), a provider of secure health information exchange, workflow management services and telehealth ...

WARREN — A doctor who now practices in Boardman has filed a civil suit against the Steward Medical Group claiming the practice was illegally paying him to make referrals to other physicians in its ...