Practice Management
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Slavitt to Trump administration: Keep the CMS Innovation Center
WASHINGTON – The transition from volume-based payment to value-based payment “can’t work as well without a CMS Innovation Center that can move...
From the Editor
Value-based cancer care and the patient perspective
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How to Tweet: a guide for physicians
Guidelines
NCCN: Deliver vincristine by mini IV drip bag
Always dilute chemotherapy agent vincristine and administer it by mini IV-drip bag, instead of syringe, urges the National Comprehensive Cancer...
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What will the Trump administration mean for medicine?
ACA repeal seems fairly likely; who will head the federal health care agencies is unknown.
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Meaningful use: CMS extends 90-day reporting period to 2016, 2017
Several meaningful use requirements for doctors and hospitals were eased under the federal regulation that sets payments for the hospital...
From the Journals
Employer-provided insurance stable after ACA implementation
Concerns that Affordable Care Act provisions implemented in 2014 would lead large numbers of employers to drop health insurance coverage appear to...
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Number of Medicare part D drug plans continues to decline
There will be 16% fewer Medicare part D prescription drug plans available in 2017, compared with 2016,
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7 tips for successful value-based care contracts
Drafting clear, thoughtful contracts with payers is critical as physicians enter into new value-based care arrangements.
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Drug prices, not the health law, top voters’ health priorities for 2017
Majorities of Democratic, Republican, and independent voters support making sure high-cost drugs for chronic conditions are affordable for...
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Doctors have at least seven APM options in 2017
Physicians will have several options to choose from when it comes to advanced alternative payment models (APMs) in 2017. In an Oct. 25 release,...