Practice Management
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Geriatric assessments improve communication during elderly patient visits
An intervention to integrate geriatric assessment results and recommendations into cancer care for elderly patients can improve communication.
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Court strikes down Trump’s conscience rule
The measure would have allowed clinicians to refuse to provide medical care to patients for religious or moral reasons.
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Strategy critical to surviving drug shortages
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – The impact of drug shortages transcends the inability to supply patients with first-line or optimal therapy. Education is...
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Training, alerts up the odds of discussions about genomic testing costs
A variety of physician and practice factors – some of them modifiable – increased the likelihood that oncologists discussed these often expensive...
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MIPS, E/M changes highlight 2020 Medicare fee schedule
Coding and administrative changes should save clinicians 2.3 million hours per year, according to CMS.
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Court blocks immigration health insurance rule
A district judge has temporarily blocked an order by President Trump that would make health insurance or the ability to pay a requirement for...
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President to nominate oncologist to lead FDA
President Trump has indicated his intent to nominate Stephen Hahn, MD, as FDA Commissioner.
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Could the biosimilar market stall before it ever really started?
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – Those trying to hold back biosimilars may be on the wrong side of history – but also in line with the current economic...
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Premiums down slightly for 2020 plans on HealthCare.gov
While the 2020 premiums are down, compared with 2019, they are significantly higher than they were in 2016, according to a report from the Centers...
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Expect some congressional action on drug prices, but not major reform
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD – Congress seems most likely to pass narrow changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, according to Ross...
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Net prices of drugs rising four-times faster than inflation
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. – The investigators also found a wide variation on discounts across therapeutic classes.