Business of Medicine
News
Medicare hospital costs down over last 6 months of life
News
ABIM unlinks MOC enrollment from board certification
Physicians who fail to enroll in the ABIM’s Maintenance of Certification program will no longer automatically lose their board certification...
Commentary
Whispered pectoriloquy
Too many clinicians struggle with systems and describe data that reflect things they have not done, all due to the use of EHR default settings...
Conference Coverage
PCPC: Avoid these traps when prescribing medical marijuana
Marijuana has legitimate medical indications, but smoking the drug is not the appropriate method of delivery, and clinicians without experience...
News
Coding mistakes lead to $35 million in drug overpayments
An audit by the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) discovered that Medicare contractors in 13 states...
Law & Medicine
Update on informed consent
A shift toward a patient-oriented requisite standard of disclosure is changing the risk to physicians posed by informed consent.
News
Medicare hospital-related mortality down since 1999
News
Study questions whether MOC is worth the time
New research estimates the 10-year average physician cost of completing the American Board of Internal Medicine’s 2015 maintenance of...
News
Drug manufacturers delayed reporting serious unexpected adverse events
Key clinical point: Drug manufacturers delayed reporting about 10% of serious unexpected adverse events to the FDA. Major finding: Manufacturers...
Article
Value-based care poses new legal risks for doctors
The government’s push toward value-based care aims to fix a broken reimbursement system and improve quality of care for patients. But the new...