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AMA president calls on Congress to stabilize Medicare payments to physicians
“Physicians face an array of planned cuts that would reduce Medicare physician payments by nearly 10% for 2022.”
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Online reviews most important factor in choosing a doctor: Survey
A total of 83% of respondents said they went online to read reviews of a physician after receiving a referral from another provider.
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Care via video teleconferencing can be as effective as in-person for some conditions
Video teleconferencing works best for monitoring patients with chronic conditions, according to the author of a new paper.
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Seven legal risks of promoting unproven COVID-19 treatments
Depending on the facts, a physician or other health care professional could be charged with reckless endangerment, criminal negligence, or...
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Telemedicine, triaging, remote monitoring top list of COVID-era innovations in oncology
“We had assumed that telemedicine would be the wave of the future and cancer patients would love it.” – Aaron Begue
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Finding healthcare ‘soul-destroying,’ some turn to online sex work
"I'm done with healthcare and now I'm an online whore."
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Ten changes that could keep clinicians in the workforce in a pandemic
Doctors make checklist of low-cost action items to start addressing a wave of providers leaving medicine.
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Did prior authorization refusals lead to this patient’s death?
Nearly 4 years after major organizations signed a consensus statement agreeing to improve the prior authorization process, physicians say little...
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Patient whips out smartphone and starts recording: Trouble ahead?
“The worry is that there’s a small subset of patients with an ulterior motive.”
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CDC unveils mental health protection plan for health care workers
“It’s long past time for us to care for the people who care for all of us and address burnout in our health care workers,” said U.S. Surgeon...
From the Journals
Beware of private equity–owned nursing homes: study
You can expect a somewhat lower level of quality in a PE-owned nursing home than in other for-profit facilities.