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Women’s residency and subspecialty choices diverging
September 23, 2019
Women were more likely than men to report that they had never considered cardiology as a career choice.
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ABIM: Self-paced MOC pathway under development
August 31, 2019
The longitudinal assessment option will provide doctors with immediate feedback about answers and links to educational material.
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Social determinants of health gaining prominence
August 16, 2019
Training to recognize patients’ social determinants of health – factors such as income, living and working conditions, and access to healthy food and transportation – is gaining traction.
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Burnout gets personal for 68% of physicians
August 6, 2019
Young primary care providers beware.
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Professional coaching keeps doctors in the game
August 5, 2019
Mayo study looks at another technique to help doctors avoid burnout.
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Critics say hospital price transparency proposal ‘misses the mark’
July 31, 2019
The proposal from CMS would require hospitals to make public both their list prices and the prices they negotiate with payers.
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CMS plans to give MIPS an overhaul
July 31, 2019
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the changes are designed to make measures more relevant and reporting less burdensome. The changes received a good early review from the American Medical Association.
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CMS proposes improved E/M payments, additional price transparency for hospitals
July 29, 2019
The Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule for the 2020 annual update would require hospitals to publish the negotiated price by specific payer for select services that patients can schedule in advance.
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Trained interpreters essential for treating non–English-speaking patients
July 28, 2019
NEW YORK – Even in a private office setting, failure to engage a trained translator is discouraged.
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As patients, physicians fare nearly the same as everyone else
July 27, 2019
Physicians do only slightly better than nonphysicians in adhering to guidelines, “but not by much and not always.”
