Business of Medicine
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Should you dismiss a difficult patient?
Even if a reason seems legitimate, that doesn’t make it legal.
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Proposal to cap Part B pay on some drugs draws opposition
MedPAC’s recommendation on Part B add-on pay for costly drugs met strong resistance, but reactions were mixed to a plan to reduce reimbursement...
Opinion
How not to establish rapport with your patient
With COVID waning and masks doffed, I've found myself back to handshaking.
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Docs misdiagnose aneurysm and patient dies; must pay $29M; more
“If you just treat people based on what the likelihood is, statistically, you’re going to miss a lot of life-threatening conditions.”
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Tips for addressing uptick in mental health visits: Primary care providers collaborate, innovate
Clinical psychologist recommends primary care providers screen all adult patients for depression and anxiety.
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International rights group calls out United States for allowing hospitals to push millions into debt
About a third of U.S. adults with health care debt owed money for hospitalization.
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After Yusimry’s steep discount, little clarity on future adalimumab biosimilar pricing
SmithRx, which bills itself as “next-generation pharmacy benefits management,” announced that it will offer Yusimry to its members at a discount...
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Did ob.gyn. residencies take a hit from abortion bans?
“If you’re somewhere that you can’t really provide full-spectrum reproductive health care ... How is the program going to provide that training?”...
News
New bill would provide greater length of time to sue doctors
Without a statute of limitations, people could bring claims many years after the fact, which makes it harder to obtain and preserve evidence.
Opinion
WOW! You spend that much time on the EHR?
After a couple of decades, there is no well defined way of quantifying the time-gobbling effect of an EHR system.