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E Weissenstein

Publications and source records attributed to E Weissenstein.

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PubMed1992

Defense Dept. starts payment program.

The Department of Defense's healthcare system is starting a program to collect reimbursement for care from third-party payers. Walson Air Force Hospital at Fort Dix, N.J., is the first Defense Department facility at which the policy will be implemented. The program could collect as much as $2.5 billion annually when it's under way at all facilities. Walson has hired CIS Technologies to handle its billing and collections.

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PubMed1992

As healthcare groups help fill campaign coffers, the question is: what is the money buying?

The American Medical Association, with $1.4 million in contributions, led in campaign giving among 125 healthcare-related political action committees that reported a total of $7.6 million in contributions since Jan. 1, 1991. While consumers groups contend such special-interest giving provides clout in healthcare policy decisionmaking, the PACs say the money doesn't buy votes, only access to candidates and lawmakers.

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PubMed1992

1992 up & comers.

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HCFA's physician panel miffed at getting tepid topics to tackle.

The panel formed by HCFA to give physicians a voice in the regulatory process has been so frustrated by the fluffy topics the agency has given it to review that one member has threatened to resign. But after a recent meeting between HCFA officials and the chairman of the Medicare Participating Physicians Advisory Council, both sides are hopeful that future agendas will include more significant topics.

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