Practice Management
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Cancer incidence higher in men, blacks
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New England the place to be for physician access
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Physician Compare: Expanded data cause concern
Physician associations are voicing frustration about the public release of 2014 quality scores on CMS’s Physician Compare website. The potentially...
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Docs to CMS: Delay Meaningful Use Stage 3
“Doctors want to spend their time with patients, not measuring the number of clicks. We want a successful transition to digital health records,...
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NIH, CDC get boost in House budget bill
The increases are targeted to a number of specific research areas, including Alzheimer’s disease, the BRAIN Initiative, antibiotics research, as...
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Academic hospitals offer better AML survival
Key clinical point: Academic hospitals tend to have better short- and long-term mortality for patients with AML than nonacademic hospitals. Major...
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Medicare audits: What leads to an exclusion?
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Cigna CEO David Cordani: ACA marketplace is still in ‘version 1.0’
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Analysis finds 28.8% prevalence of depression in residents
Key clinical point: The prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms was 28.8% (range, 20.9%-43.2%) among residents in a meta-analysis of 54...
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Senate votes to gut ACA, defund Planned Parenthood
For the first time, Senate Republicans have mustered enough votes to severely damage President Obama’s signature health reform legislation, the...
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Joint Commission names top-performing hospitals
Approximately 31% of U.S. hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission earned “Top Performer” status for 2014, down from almost 37% the previous...