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Benefits of Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs lacking
When employing an instrumental variable model, there was not an association with changes in total spending per beneficiary per quarter.
The Optimized Doctor
Improving self-confidence
When I meet with our young doctors, I try to provide feedback not only on their medical acumen but also on their confidence to deploy that...
Managing Your Practice
Sexual harassment: Prevention and defense
Medical offices are far from immune from harassment, of course, and the problem is not limited to staff interactions.
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One hundred thousand reasons to donate to your political action committee (PAC)
In Medicare alone, elimination of global periods and modifier 25 will shift 1.4 billion dollars per year away from dermatology.
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Universal health care hearing: GOP hears what it wants to
One Republican chides colleagues for not focusing on technology.
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Teletriage connects uninsured with timely dermatologist care
MILAN – With implementation of teledermatology, patient wait times for specialist input dropped from 13.9 days to 1.6 days.
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Survey puts a price on health improvement
Forty percent of Americans say that they need a financial incentive to exercise.
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Judge bars contraceptive mandate from being enforced
Texas court ruled the ACA requirement violates religious freedoms.
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Preprints come to medicine: medRxiv launches with safeguards
The new repository of preprints in medicine is intended for researcher-to-researcher communication before publication in peer-reviewed journals....
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Program meets social needs of 90% of patients
WASHINGTON – More than a quarter of patients screened identified having one or more social need.
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CMS seeks answers on prior authorization, other hassles to eliminate
Agency asks health care professionals how to reduce burdens including prior authorization, coding, documentation, and more.