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Paying More for Primary Care: Beginning in the summer, WellPoint will increase reimbursement for primary-care services — offering those physicians a fee increase of around 10% with the chance of additional payments that could bolster what they receive for covered patients by as much as 50% — in an attempt to lower acute-care […]
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Differences in doctorsâ compensation are in the spotlight today â both between specialties and between the U.S. and other countries.
As the WSJ reports, the American Academy of Family Physicians wants Medicare to change the makeup of a committee that helps set physician-payment levels, including adding more primary-care representatives to the group. And it […]
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What could primary-care physicians do differently to benefit patients’ health and cut risks, harms and costs?
The National Physicians Alliance, a 22,000-member group of doctors that advocates for affordable, universal health care, came out with its own list — lists, actually, since there’s one each for family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics. The group’s […]
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Under the terms of the health-care overhaul law, about 16 million people will join the Medicaid rolls starting in 2014.
But once that happens, will there be enough doctors, particularly those focused on primary care, to treat them?
A study out this week from the Center for Studying Health System Change (CSHSC) comes to a […]
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Katherine Hobson
Vaccines Likely to Return: Members of a panel of medical experts in Japan said they didn’t believe Pfizer’s Prevnar and Sanofi-Aventis’s ActHIB childhood vaccines are connected to the deaths of five kids there in the past few months, Dow Jones Newswires reports. That means the vaccines, against bacterial infections that can lead […]
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Kaisers secure patient site, which is linked to its electronic medical records site, is now piloting online depression treatment and management programs.
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Katherine Hobson
Also: food makers to offer new front-of-package label; Glaxo whistleblower; Harvard Med School gets $30 million for primary care.
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Scrapping the deductible “modestly” improved screening rates for blood-cholesterol tests, Pap smears, mammograms and fecal-occult blood tests.
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How ya gonna keep them down on the farm after their service contract is up?
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Katherine Hobson
To make up for the difference in income over the course of a career, primary care doctors would have to receive a $1 million lump-sum payment or have an annual income boost of $100,000.
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