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March 25, 2019 | STAT
Burnout is one of the biggest problems physicians face today. We believe that addressing it early — in medical school — through coaching gives physicians the tools they need to maintain balance and meaning in their personal and...
March 23, 2019 | USA Today
The patient appeared to be dying. She had chronic lung disease, and she had been told she had little reserve left and had barely survived on home oxygen for the past few years. Each time she picked up a lung infection, the buzzards circled...
March 21, 2019
After a great discussion by our panelists, webinar guests had many questions. While we did not have time to answer all of them, our panelists were able to answer some additional questions after the webinar had ended. If you haven't yet...
March 21, 2019 | Health Data Management
A new study suggests that the use of telemedicine in primary care could potentially lead to further fragmentation of care.
It’s possible that the use of the technology could lead to disconnected care, counteracting the benefits of...
March 20, 2019 | ROI New Jersey
Making good on a commitment he made earlier in the year, state Department of Health Commissioner Shereef Elnahal published guidance Monday that he hopes will allow health care providers to better serve behavioral health and substance abuse...
March 20, 2019 | Kaiser Health News
When Beverly Dunn called her new primary care doctor’s office last November to schedule an annual checkup, she assumed her Medicare coverage would pick up most of the tab.
The appointment seemed like a routine physical, and she was...
March 19, 2019 | American Academy of Family Physicians
On Monday, March 11, I was eagerly anticipating the release of the administration's fiscal year 2020 budget proposal(www.whitehouse.gov) when an email popped up in my inbox. That email linked me to a commentary article in The American...
March 19, 2019 | PCORI
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors today approved $3.8 million to fund two projects designed to use shared decision making to disseminate and implement PCORI research findings and to simultaneously...
March 19, 2019 | PCORI
atient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Executive Director Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH, has informed PCORI’s Board of Governors that he plans to retire at the end of 2019.
PCORI, authorized by Congress in 2010, is the nation’s...
March 18, 2019 | New York Times
The kind of thing we have done instinctively in our workplaces for two decades — sending a quick email instead of setting up a meeting — has until recently eluded many doctors.
Electronic consultations, or eConsults (sometimes called...
March 18, 2019 | Health Affairs Blog
Screening for social determinants of health (SDOH) is increasingly done in primary and specialty care settings. Payers and health care organizations have recognized the importance of these determinants not just to clinical outcomes but...
March 16, 2019 | Washington Post
Gilbert Saldana, 22, still has a couple of months before he graduates from Georgetown University, but anxiety about his future is already keeping him up at night.
“I’m almost in the job world, and it really weighs down on me,” said the...
March 16, 2019 | The Hill
During the 20th century, America’s commitment to preventive health efforts such as water purification and vaccinations all but eradicated many deadly illnesses and, in the process, extended the average life expectancy by three decades,...
March 15, 2019 | Health Affairs Blog
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have become a major payment and delivery reform since they were introduced as a key component of the Affordable Care Act. Currently, there are more than 1,000 ACOs covering about 33 million lives...
March 15, 2019 | NOLA
Half of the 181 graduating medical students from LSU Health New Orleans who participated in Match Day this year will remain in Louisiana to finish their training. The National Resident Match Program is a pivotal day in a medical student’s...
March 12, 2019 | Wall Street Journal
UnitedHealth Group Inc. said it would significantly expand a change to how it handles rebates from drugmakers by requiring new employer clients to pass them on to people who take the medications.
The move will apply to employers that sign...
March 12, 2019 | The Hill
If people in this polarized nation can agree on one thing, it is that prescription drug prices are too high, and that the federal government should do something about it. But it seems unlikely that Congress or the administration will do...
March 11, 2019 | Health Affairs Blog
On February 11, 2019, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released two highly anticipated rules focused on increasing patient access to their own...
March 9, 2019 | Modern Healthcare
The 1989 Stark Law penalizing physicians and hospitals for making medical decisions for patients based on their financial self-interest has few remaining fans. Even its author, former California Democratic Rep. Pete Stark, has called for...
March 8, 2019
MedPAC’s March 2019 Public Meeting
Medicare's role in the supply of primary care physicians (Ariel Winter, MPP)
MedPAC, or the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, is an independent congressional agency established by the Balanced...
