The American College of Emergency Physicians today responded to Cigna Insurance Company’s multi-million dollar ad campaign starring famous “TV doctors” with a video of its own, ...
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By Sandra G. Boodman, Kaiser Health News They are a little-known presence in many operating rooms, offering technical expertise to surgeons installing new knees, implanting cardiac ...
Read More »Physician Salaries On Rise, But One-Third Still Dissatisfied
By Valerie Gleaton Despite the looming physician shortage, physician salaries increased just 2.5 percent from 2015 to 2016, according to findings from a new healthcare ...
Read More »Independent Provider Networks Enter Health Care ‘Race To Get Bigger’ By Keeping Things Small
After more than six years since the Affordable Care Act became law in March 2010, officials at the Pennsylvania Medical Society say health care reform has created ...
Read More »How To Fix The Primary Care Physician Shortage
By G. Richard Olds, M.D. The U.S. healthcare system is at a crossroads. The number of primary care physicians is expected to grow modestly over ...
Read More »New Documentary Spotlight’s Latin American Medical Scholarship Program
Community Doctors — new documentary focusing on Cuba’s ELAM (Latin American School of Medicine) scholarship program — has just been released online. Students in the program ...
Read More »You Might Be Better Off Paying Cash For Your Prescription Medicine
By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Some consumers who use health insurance copays to buy prescription drugs are paying far more than they should be and ...
Read More »Your Chemo Cost Is Probably Higher If Your Doctor Works For Hospital
If you have cancer, chances are your outpatient chemotherapy treatment costs are higher if your oncologist works for a health care system than if she ...
Read More »VA Hospital Care Rates Just As Well As Private Centers
Veterans Affairs hospitals seem to do just as well as other U.S. hospitals when it comes to treating older men with heart disease or pneumonia, ...
Read More »Fueled By Obamacare, ‘Direct Primary Care’ Becoming More Common
A growing number of primary care doctors, spurred by the federal health law and frustrations with insurance requirements, are bringing a service that generally has ...
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