• 1 PHYSICIAN PAYMENTS: 'Vicious Cycle' Runs Over Physician Payments

• 2 HIPAA HELP: Piggyback Privacy Rule To Make Security Compliance Load Bearable

• 3 PHYSICIAN PAYMENTS: Can Anything Save Physician Payments?

• 4 MEDICAL REVIEW: Order Lab Tests And You May Hear From Carrier Reviewers

• 5 MEDICARE REFORM: Is The Bush Medicare Reform Plan DOA?

• 6 CODING: Don't Overbill For Stable Nursing Home Patients

• 7 CODING COMPLIANCE: 4 Tips For Painless Lesion Excision Coding

• 8 EVALUATION & MANAGEMENT: Outpatient Teaching Doctors Face Confusion

• 9 COMPLIANCE: Don't Be Too Forward, OIG Tells Carriers

• 10 STUDIES & SURVEYS: Less Is More, Says MedPAC

• 11 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS: Lincare Contamination Leads To Investigation

• 12 DRUG PRICING: CMS Seeks Alternative To Inherent Reasonableness For Drugs

• 13 INDUSTRY NOTES: Doctors Need To Ballast Hot-Air Cost Balloon

• 14 CODING: Surgically Remove Surgery From Aftercare Claims

• 15 LEGISLATION: Medicare Escapes Narrowly From Cuts

• 16 BUNDLING: Call Carriers To Avoid Bundling Shortfalls

• 17 PRACTICE EXPENSES: Oncologists Hope To Avoid RVU Pie Fight

• 18 LEGISLATION: House Committee Aims To Insulate ALJs From CMS