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Seven ways doctors could get better payment from insurers
Experts say physicians can push back on one-sided payer contracts and negotiate changes.
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Physician burnout, depression compounded by COVID: Survey
“There’s no question that women have reported far more role strain during the pandemic than men.”
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Doc’s botched surgery leads to incontinence and $10 million judgment; more
Though successful, the procedure still left Ms. Nugent with, what are for now at least, intractable symptoms.
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Pandemic weighing on physicians’ happiness outside of work: survey
Work-life balance is an important, if elusive, goal for physicians, and not just females.
Opinion
When the patient wants to speak to a manager
The level of incivility from patients is at an all-time high.
Opinion
Should you dismiss that patient?
Contrary to what seems to be the popular opinion, there are no statutory laws that I am aware of that directly apply to patient dismissal, beyond...
Commentary
NPs, PAs say stop attacks and support health care colleagues
Let us be clear about one thing: What patients really want and deserve is access to high-quality care delivered by the health care provider of...
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Medicaid expansion curbs disparities, increases immigrant access, in postpartum care
Expansion of Medicaid was associated with higher rates of postpartum coverage and reduced racial/ethnic disparities in postpartum care, and...
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Physicians react: Should docs lose their licenses for spreading false COVID information?
State licensing boards have mostly refused to discipline these doctors for making false and/or misleading claims.
Commentary
PA name change bad for patients and the profession
NPs have been more successful than PAs at persuading legislators to allow them independence – but that doesn’t make it right for either group.
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As pandemic regs expire, states get tougher on telehealth: report
Among the restrictions that have been reinstated in some states are those barring requirements for insurers to cover telehealth.