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August 3, 2021 | MedPage Today
Medicine is hard enough. When you are a Black woman in medicine, hard becomes nearly impossible.
July 30, 2021 | PCPCC Press Release
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2021—As the country experiences COVID surges again and struggles to reach the Biden administration’s vaccination goals, new data released today by the Larry A. Green Center, in collaboration with PCC and 3rd...
July 30, 2021
At press time, the House of Representatives appears poised to pass H.R. 4502, the Fiscal Year 2022 Labor/HHS Appropriations bill. Report language accompanying the bill would direct $5 million, sought by the PCC, to the Center for Primary...
July 30, 2021
As debate over big-ticket infrastructure and budget reconciliation bills unfolds, the Senate Finance and House Energy and Commerce Committees are charting more bipartisan paths on behavioral health, social determinants of health, and...
July 30, 2021
On July 13, CMS released its annual Medicare Part B Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule.
Among other provisions, CMS proposes to:
Update reimbursement for Medicare Part B fee schedule services
Maintain certain telehealth services on...
July 29, 2021
This is a republished article from the July 2021 issue of the Executive Member Update, the monthly e-newsletter for PCC Executive Members. Each issue of the newsletter features a short profile of an individual who works in primary care or...
July 29, 2021 | MedPage Today
Physician assistants (PAs) reported high job satisfaction in 2020, despite much of the year being marked by the pandemic, and the field continues to grow. That's according to the annual Statistical Profile of Certified PAs, released this...
July 27, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
Check back regularly for the latest survey results and updates.
For data from the previous clinician survey, see Round 28 Results.
The Primary Care Collaborative is partnering with the Larry A. Green Center to regularly survey primary...
July 27, 2021
Maine has been a leader in the nation over the past four months, from March through June 2021, in terms of the proportion of its population that has been fully vaccinated. This accomplishment is in spite of several major demographic and...
July 26, 2021 | Washington Post
Medical groups representing millions of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health workers on Monday called for mandatory vaccinations of all U.S. health personnel against the coronavirus, framing the move as a moral imperative as new...
July 26, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
Check back regularly for the latest survey results and updates.
The Primary Care Collaborative is partnering with the Larry A. Green Center and 3rd Conversation to field regular surveys of primary care clinicians and occasional surveys of...
July 26, 2021 | Primary Care Collaborative
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2021 – The PCC and many of its members are among the 430 organizations that are sending a letter today to Congress to urge policymakers to address the “telehealth cliff.” The letter was co-led by the Alliance for...
July 26, 2021
The department is giving employees eight weeks to comply. “Whenever a Veteran or VA employee sets foot in a VA facility, they deserve to know that we have done everything in our power to protect them from COVID-19,″ Veterans Affairs...
July 21, 2021 | CDC
Life expectancy at birth in the United States declined by 1.5 years from 2019 to 2020 to the lowest level since 2003, according to new provisional data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The drop in life...
July 21, 2021
Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the Dept. of Health and Human Services, on July 19 extended the public health emergency due to COVID-19. The extension started the next day – July 20 – and lasts 90 days.
July 21, 2021 | Modern Healthcare
To help instill in this group the confidence to get vaccinated, primary-care providers and health systems are key. PCPs are the most trusted source of vaccine information, and their offices are the most preferred location for vaccinations...
July 15, 2021 | NPR
On Wednesday, President Biden lunched with Senate Democrats, hosted governors and mayors for a roundtable on infrastructure and also — hung out with Olivia Rodrigo, an 18-year-old pop star beloved by Generation Z.
Rodrigo, who currently...
July 15, 2021
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is issuing an advisory to warn the American public about the urgent threat of health misinformation. Health misinformation, including disinformation, have threatened the U.S. response to COVID-19 and...
July 12, 2021 | Politico
The Biden administration is running out of ideas for jumpstarting the pace of coronavirus vaccinations, raising the prospect that more than a quarter of American adults could still be vulnerable to the virus into the fall.
July 8, 2021 | PR Newswire
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — The 2021 Health Care Insights Study by CVS Health® (a PCC Executive Member), released today, reveals the long-lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic but also highlights the resilience of patients, providers and the...
