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New Medicare physician fee schedule leaves docs fuming over pay cuts
Physician groups’ initial reactions centered on an across-the-board reduction of 4.4% in the conversion factor.
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Working while sick: Why doctors don’t stay home when ill
Only 2% of respondents said they never come to work unwell, in a Medscape survey.
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Medicare fines for high hospital readmissions drop, but nearly 2,300 facilities are still penalized
“The COVID pandemic did a lot of really unprecedented things to care patterns of hospitals.”
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Access to abortion clinics declines sharply
The percentage of reproductive-age women who live more than an hour from an abortion facility has doubled since this summer’s Supreme Court ruling...
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Would a national provider directory save docs’ time, help patients?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking for comment on its proposal for the first-ever nationwide directory of health care...
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‘Financial toxicity’: Harsh side effect of cancer care
High costs of cancer treatment can induce more anxiety and distress than the treatment itself.
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COVID lawsuits have arrived: Which doctors are at risk?
One factor may be that physicians were doing the best they could at the time but that the pandemic affected the extent of care they could provide...
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Rapid point-of-care test could help avoid inappropriate antibiotic prescribing
A 10-minute fingerstick test failed to receive FDA clearance but has been okayed for sale outside the United States.
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Insulin rationing common, ‘surprising’ even among privately insured
Americans with private insurance are more likely to ration insulin than are those with public health insurance and the insulin-treated diabetes...
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Are doctors savers or spenders?
Medscape polled 468 U.S. physicians and 159 living outside of the United States.