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Five ways docs may qualify for discounts on medical malpractice premiums
Most states cap discounts at 25%, but some go as high as 70%.
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Statin misinformation on social media flagged by AI
Using artificial intelligence to analyze large amounts of information from social media platforms generated novel insights into public perceptions...
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Medical-level empathy? Yup, ChatGPT can fake that
Plus: Fishy sperm, an even more fishy sperm donor, and aviation-related sleep deserts.
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Two Canadian provinces lift licensing barriers for U.S. doctors
Canada may attract American physicians who find U.S. medicine to be fraught with ethical dilemmas and restrictions from insurance companies and...
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Proposed Medicare bill would raise docs’ pay with inflation
The legislation is essential to enabling physician practices to better absorb payment distributions triggered by budget neutrality rules,...
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Surgeons, intensivists earn more than do colleagues from private insurance
On average, physicians in 18 specialties netted $1.9 million a year, according to a new AMN Healthcare report.
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CMS inpatient payment rule for 2024: Key takeaways
Many of the changes centered around improving health equity and quality as well as alleviating rural clinician shortages.
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Infographic: Is your compensation rising as fast as your peers?
Did doctors’ salaries continue their zesty postpandemic rise in 2022?
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Five chronic mistakes that can sabotage your medical practice
Although she says there are no hard and fast rules on how to run a thriving medical group, there are common mistakes that physicians often don’t...
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Physicians may retire en masse soon. What does that mean for medicine?
“It’s a significant concern in terms of whether we have an adequate supply of physicians in the U.S. to meet our nation’s medical care needs....
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Physician compensation continues to climb amid postpandemic change
Gender-based pay disparity among primary care physicians shrank, and the number of physicians who declined to take new Medicare patients rose.