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Patient “rounds’’ — the crucial daily meetings when doctors and other caregivers determine treatment — often occur in hospital hallways and remote conference rooms. But a study led by Boston researchers concluded that it’s far safer to do...
The future of U.S. health care reform is muddier now than at any point in the past two decades. Health care was one of the most important issues for voters in the 2018 election, but there is little reason to believe that substantive...
Reforming the physician fee schedule would help close the income gap that has led to a shortage of primary-care physicians, according to a new paper.  When Congress shifted pay models from individual physicians' historical charges to the...
The popularity of telemedicine has soared among Minnesotans in the past decade, with urban dwellers seeking the convenience of routine care online and rural residents videochatting with distant doctors for everything from prescription...
The organization that controls the distribution of livers for transplant revised its controversial allocation policy for the second time in a year, further limiting transplant centers’ access to organs collected in their areas. The new...
More than 40 percent of American adults have not received a flu shot this year and don't plan to do so, according to a new poll released Wednesday.  The survey from NORC at the University of Chicago found that, as of mid-November, 41...
Suzanne Delbanco dials up Ann Greiner, President and CEO of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), to discuss the patient centered medical home (PCMH) model. Ann shares where the PCMH came from, how the concept and use...
On November 19, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Notice 2018-88. This notice requests comment on a number of new safe harbors for the employer mandate and Section 105(h) of the Internal Revenue Code in light of the recent proposed...
Using data from the American Medical Association’s 2016 Physician Practice Benchmark Survey, we provide the first nationally representative estimates of physicians’ use of telemedicine. In 2016, 15.4 percent of physicians worked in...
The final evaluation of the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative published in Health Affairs in June described the project and concluded that it “did not reduce Medicare [emphasis added] spending enough to cover care management fees...
For older teens and young adults, the extraction of so-called wisdom teeth is a painful rite of passage. A new study suggests it’s likely made more perilous by the package of narcotic pain pills that patients frequently carry home after...
Why are American mothers dying in childbirth at higher rates than in other developed countries? And who is to blame? Kim Brooks raised these questions in her Opinion essay “America Is Blaming Pregnant Women for Their Own Deaths.” More than...
“Provider Payment Reform: Right Course, Wrong Students?,” a recent blog post authored by Chris Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund, argues that while delivering high-value care to vulnerable populations is the “right coursework...
Life expectancy in the United States declined again in 2017, the government said Thursday in a bleak series of reports that showed a nation still in the grip of escalating drug and suicide crises. The data continued the longest sustained...
The Trump administration is urging states to tear down pillars of the Affordable Care Act, demolishing a basic rule that federal insurance subsidies can be used only by people buying health plans in marketplaces created under the law....
After years of steady decline, the number of U.S. children without health insurance rose by 276,000 in 2017, according to a Georgetown University report released Thursday. While not a big jump statistically — the share of uninsured kids...
More than half of executives surveyed said that new EHR functions haven't produced the expected gains in their organization's revenue-cycle performance.
The long-running federal court case seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for the nation’s opioid crisis has a new complication: How does it deal with claims covering the thousands of babies born to addicts? Attorneys representing the...
Crop yields are declining. Tropical diseases like dengue fever are showing up in unfamiliar places, including in the United States. Tens of millions of people are exposed to extreme heat. These are the stark findings of a wide-ranging...
CMS Administrator Seema Verma wants to reassure individual market enrollees that they won't lose access to care if a federal judge in Texas strikes down the Affordable Care Act.

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