Friday, June 17, 2011

Health Care Reform Means Legal and Practical Changes for Doctors

Source: The American Bar Association
Health care reform calls for sweeping changes that will upend doctors’ business models. Now physicians and their lawyers are seeking solutions for growing concerns about how their practices will change.
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Friday, June 17, 2011

MD's Gather at AMA Meeting Amid Reform Uncertainty

Source: The Associated Press

Dr. Cecil Wilson is an avid sailor, a hobby that has served him well in navigating the nation's largest doctors' group through murky, uncharted waters.

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Friday, June 17, 2011

Doctors in demand

Source: The Boston Globe
Health care reform has had an impact on many things in Massachusetts, including the ongoing shortage of primary care doctors. Everyone agrees we need more of them.
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Friday, June 3, 2011

Health-Care Initiative Draws Fire

Source: Wall Street Journal
Hospitals and doctors are pushing back against an Obama administration initiative that urges them to create new organizations to coordinate the care of groups of Medicare patients.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Medicaid Managed Care Expands In California As State Requires Seniors and Disabled to Join

Source: Kaiser Health News
More than one million of California's older and disabled population will receive a birthday gift this year that they may not have asked for: membership in a state-sponsored managed-care plan.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Report: Big Flaws In How Medicare Pays Hospitals, Doctors

Source: Kaiser Health News
Medicare pays more to doctors and hospitals in expensive parts of the country. But a prestigious panel says Medicare’s methods of evaluating regional costs are disturbingly imprecise and need to be overhauled.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Healthcare reform check-up: Is there a doctor in the house?

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

Opinion by Steve Heilig

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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

What if America runs out of primary-care doctors?

Source: The Washington Post
Even if health reform survives its political hazing, how will the Affordable Care Act fare if there aren’t enough doctors to treat all the newly insured Americans?
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

As Physicians' Jobs Change, So Do Their Politics

Source: NY Times
With Republicans in complete control of Maine’s state government for the first time since 1962, State Senator Lois A. Snowe-Mello offered a bill in February to limit doctors’ liability that she was sure the powerful doctors’ lobby would cheer. Instead, it asked her to shelve the measure.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

No veto threat on medical education bill

Source: The Hill
The Obama administration is not threatening to veto a Republican bill that would replace spending in the healthcare reform law to train medical residents with an annual appropriation.
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