Physician search firm Merritt Hawkins recently released a report based on over 3,000 of its provider placements in the last year. One of the major ...
Read More »Proposal To Offer Skimpy, “Copper” Health Insurance Plans
By Michelle Andrews If you offer it, will they come? Insurers and some U.S. senators have proposed offering cheaper, skimpier “copper” plans on the health insurance ...
Read More »Doctor Group Says Supreme Court’s Birth Control Decision “Has The Potential To Harm Us All”
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States today served a blow to President Obama’s Affordable Care Act as it ruled that ...
Read More »MDs With MBAs Become Happy VIPs
The worlds of medicine and business have been colliding for years. Now, research has found a significant increase in physicians with MBAs as docs look ...
Read More »What’s A Surgeon’s Role In An ACO? Not Much.
By Jenny Gold Accountable Care Organizations have given little attention to surgery in the early years of the Medicare program, choosing to focus instead on managing ...
Read More »AMA Votes to Restrict E-Cigs
At their annual meeting, the AMA called for reining in the sale and marketing practices of companies that produce electronic nicotine delivery systems. The group ...
Read More »AMA Wants Obama To Let Private Doctors Treat Vets
The American Medical Association (AMA) voted Tuesday to ask President Obama to provide timely access to entitled care for eligible veterans utilizing the health care ...
Read More »‘I Love Your DNA; Will You Marry Me?’
Most people choose their spouses based on a very specific, unique set of characteristics like “nice hair” or “funny.” Ok, other things like race, religion, ...
Read More »Should Doctors Participate in the Death Penalty?
By now, you’ve heard about the execution-gone-bad in Oklahoma where inmate Clayton Lockett died of a heart attack forty minutes after his lethal injection began and was abruptly ...
Read More »Ivy League Students Don’t Count Misuse of ADHD Meds as Cheating
While it may be cause for cheating in Major League Baseball, misuse of stimulants seems to be more accepted among Ivy League students. A new ...
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