Business of Medicine
Feature
Follow-up after mental illness admission: State scorecard
Medicaid enrollees in Oregon are the most likely to see a mental health clinician within 30 days.
Opinion
Would a universal basic income help our patients?
It’s difficult to imagine that it would not be helpful to everyone’s mental health to be freed from the worry of earning enough money to survive,...
Latest News
MIPS: Nearly all eligible clinicians got a bonus for 2018
Exceeding the performance threshold resulted in a bonus to fee schedule payments in 2018.
Opinion
Living small
What is driving young physicians to seek large communities in which to practice?
Feature
Surprise medical billing legislation advances to the House floor
The bill was amended to include an arbitration process allowing physicians and hospitals to seek higher payments. The amendment was offered by two...
Law & Medicine
Discovery of peer review and patient safety reports
Any given state’s statute on discovery requires careful reading because it could differ from other states’ directives.
Feature
Title X grantees are told to stop abortion referrals immediately; Wen removed from Planned Parenthood
Recipients of the federal funds said that the changes threaten to decrease access to family planning services.
The Optimized Doctor
The expert trap
If you want to be a better doctor, try working on your sense of self-importance. Remember your limitations and those of medicine.
Feature
Medicare Advantage overbills taxpayers by billions a year as feds struggle to stop it
Some plans overbill the government by exaggerating how sick their members are or by charging Medicare for treatment of serious medical conditions...
Managing Your Practice
Hiring the right employees
Many of the personnel questions I receive concern the dreaded “marginal employee” – a person who has never done anything truly heinous to merit...
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The costs and benefits of SGLT2 inhibitors & GLP-1 RAs
The price tags on these drugs are the biggest barrier to their use.