American Medical News Dec. 8, 2008 |
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Doctors urge: Rescue primary care or work force shortage will mount
Making primary care a more attractive specialty must be part of health system reform, physician groups say.
Senate gets early start on health reform plan Medicaid pay delays found to squeeze access Health care fraud still a key target of federal False Claims Act Obama taps former Senate chief Daschle to head HHS Going high profile: Medical boards push transparency Doctor, med society executive honored for decades of service In the Courts - Supreme Court cases on medical issues rare, but crucial
Go tech go: Championing new health IT Doctors want further scrutiny of Horizon for-profit conversion Technically Speaking - Adopting e-prescribing with an EMR is challenging
Editorial - The promise of the medical home Letters - Arthroscopic surgery has a role, which is more common than skeptics allow and others
Kidney stones linked to greater chance of CKD More adults have prediabetes, with patients (and often physicians) unsure who's at risk
Sens. Baucus and Kennedy are working with a bipartisan group on the goal of moving a consensus bill through the Senate next year.
Bureaucratic hassles can discourage physicians from seeing new Medicaid patients.
Physicians are seldom named in false claims cases but are often in a position to blow the whistle on fraud they observe.
The nominee has proposed creating a federal health board to increase the transparency and value of health care spending.
Physicians can expect to see more information about their malpractice payments, disciplinary actions and other identifying data being made easily accessible online.
The awards were presented during the AMA's Interim Meeting in November.
A physician champion can play a key role in the success of any technology implementation. But the process can be long, and the job will demand much more than cheerleading.
New Jersey's medical society and its allies believe the Blues plan's rationale for converting to a for-profit does not reflect current economic conditions.
The moment is right for the concept of a medical home, and that means it's time to give serious attention to how physicians will be paid for this more comprehensive care.
The nature of this association is unclear, although experts say it reinforces the need to prevent stones from occurring.
Confusion over who to test may be an important obstacle.
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