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"If you are not in a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) now, you should be thinking about one." That was Robert B. Doherty's advice for physicians practicing in the post-SGR world. Doherty, who is senior vice president of government...
There are few group projects in medical school — which is strange when you consider that there are few solo practitioners in the real world. During medical school, I spent countless evenings in a library, half-asleep, poring over...
If you can live stream movies, why not live stream medical care? Insurance company UnitedHealthcare will start covering visits to the doctor's office — via video chat. Patients and physicians talk live online — on smartphones, tablets or...
Anthem Inc. said a major effort to overhaul how it pays primary-care doctors appears to be lowering overall health-care costs, as patients spend less time in the hospital. The second-biggest U.S. health insurer unveiled a high-profile...
As an internist and infectious disease physician, I am, unfortunately, often the one who has to deliver bad news to patients and their families. But this time, as I sat in the urologist’s office in January, the dreaded words were directed...
Jim Nathan, CEO of Fort Myers, Fla.-based Lee Memorial Health System, is watching his state's ferocious political battle over Medicaid expansion with growing concern. The stakes are high for his system's three hospitals. Under a federal ...
Primary-care physicians play a pivotal role in assuring that patients who require specialized care are transitioned properly from one clinical environment to another to help lower the risks for adverse events and repeat hospitalizations,...
Limited access to child and adolescent, adult, and geriatric psychiatry, as well as other mental health providers, has a large impact on the capacity of our health care system to address mental health needs, particularly in underserved...
In 2008, state legislators and Medicaid administrators asked Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC), initially launched as a managed care program for the state's Medicaid recipients, to expand the system's scope of practice to integrate...
With alarming regularity, many promising pilots in the health care improvement and implementation field have little overall impact when applied more broadly. For example, following early reports that care coordination programs benefit...
There are growing worries about the future of an ambitious federal demonstration aimed at improving coordination of care for millions of low-income and disabled Americans who are dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare. Health plan...
Last week the Senate passed legislation to permanently eliminate the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, a mechanism created in 1997 designed to restrict growth in Medicare Part B spending. In practice, the SGR would have severely cut...
If there’s one thing to keep in mind about the patient-centered medical home as HealthITAnalytics.comconcludes its practice transformation series, it’s that the PCMH is about so much more than checking off boxes on a recognition framework...
"My" patient came to see me, her "PCP," yesterday, for a routine visit. I have "my" and "PCP" in quotes because, in reality, it turns out she might not really be my patient. She is an 82-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis,...
As expected, the Senate Tuesday night easily passed legislation to scrap the formula, accepting a bipartisan plan muscled through the House last month by Speaker John Boehner and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. The Senate vote came just...
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted to repeal the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula, an action the AOA and the osteopathic profession have been advocating for throughout more than a decade. The repeal is part of the Medicare...
Family physicians triumphed Tuesday night as the Senate removed a longstanding obstacle to improved patient care by repealing the Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR), the controversial formula that had threatened to cut physician...
The historic compromise legislation passed by the Senate this week will overhaul the way Medicare pays physicians and will create new systems to reward high-performing doctors. The bill, which drew unusual bipartisan support in both...
The New Deal So what has been conjured, then, as the solution to the failures of the doc fix era? Before we bury the SGR under spilled champagne, we should consider what Congress is actually replacing it with. Having spent several years...
FOR IMEDIATE RELEASE April 14, 2015 CONTACT: Caroline DeLaney caroline@pcpcc.org | (352) 258-0090  WASHINGTON - The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) praises Congress for passing the Medicare Access and CHIP...

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