WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama’s health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care.
Medicare’s Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) program lost two organizations that suffered $4 million in losses, while seven others have shifted to a less financially stringent ACO model.
Late yesterday, California’s trial attorneys made good on their May threat to ask voters to repeal California’s landmark Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act (MICRA). Language was submitted to the California Attorney General in Sacramento, the first step in placing an initiative on the...
Press Release: Consumers Don’t Understand Health Insurance, Carnegie Mellon Research Shows
The Surgery Center of Oklahoma is an ambulatory surgical center in Oklahoma City owned by its roughly 40 surgeons and anesthesiologists. What makes it different from every other such facility in America is this: If you need an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, you will know beforehand...
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I was forwarded the article below by a close friend as a point of perspective; Doctors are always complaining about the fact that our businesses are so difficult to scale.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) is conducting an update of ACOEM Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines, its evidence-based clinical guidelines for work-related disorders. The college has invited APMA to review the revised guidelines relevant to podiatric...
From the Associated Press this morning:
This morning’s New York Times Op-Ed by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and the author of “Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Healthâ€, caught my attention.Â
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