Business of Medicine
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COVID spikes exacerbate health worker shortages in Rocky Mountains, Great Plains
“One case can take out a whole team of people in a blink of an eye.”
Feature
Twelve end-of-year tax tips: How COVID-19 could lower your tax bite
This year’s financial challenges could lend themselves to a unique tax planning scenario that could potentially benefit physicians as they make...
Perspectives
Is ‘Med Ed’ changing for better or worse?
Becoming a doctor no longer looks like it did just a half-decade ago.
Latest News
Patients can read your clinical notes starting Nov. 2
“Open notes” mandates immediate patient access to inpatient and outpatient notes and testing and imaging results.
Feature
Popularity of virtual conferences may mean a permanent shift
Within a half hour of the ACC’s opening session of its virtual conference, nearly 13,000 people had logged on from around the world.
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Outpatient visits rebound for most specialties to pre-COVID-19 levels
Visits began to rise again around Labor Day, but some specialties are still hard hit.
Feature
Scrubs ad that insulted women and DOs pulled after outcry
“We are outraged women physicians & doctors of osteopathic medicine are still attacked in ignorant marketing campaigns.”
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Medicare faces calls to stop physician pay cuts in E/M overhaul
A chart in the draft physician fee schedule shows reductions for many specialties that do not routinely bill for office visits.
Commentary
Access to care: A nurse practitioner’s plea
COVID-19 hospital policies are resulting in detrimental access-to-care issues.
Latest News
Trump signs Medicare loan relief bill delaying repayments
It includes provisions to delay repayment by physicians of pandemic-related Medicare loans and to reduce the loans’ interest rate.
Feature
Pandemic poses new challenges for rural doctors
But physicians are adapting and still finding joy in treating patients.