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‘Used to’ don’t live here no more: The changing role of primary care
Posted by Adair Parr, MD, JD July 15, 2011 at 3:53 PM
By Trudy Singzon I’ve left the cold summer weather in San Francisco for the hot, humid weather of my hometown in central Pennsylvania. It’s my grandmother’s 85th birthday and most of our extended family is in town for the celebration. I grew up in a small town where my father was a primary care physician [...]
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Join the Conversation: Should Primary Care Physicians quit the RUC?
Posted by Valerie Arkoosh, MD, MPH February 25, 2011 at 9:30 AM
Obscure acronyms clutter health care speak, but one that we should all know more about is the RUC – the Relative Value Scale Update Committee, a panel created by the AMA. As Brian Klepper, PhD, and David Kibbe, MD, MBA, recently wrote in Kaiser Health News, the RUC is “a secretive, 29 person, specialist-dominated [...]
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Donut Hole is Good for Business – Bad for Care
Posted by David Evans, MD February 21, 2011 at 8:09 PM
January and February are good for business at my family practice. One might think I am speaking of influenza outbreaks and increased patient visits for colds and sinus infections. But in my office, the first months of the year are filled with visits to help my patients dig out of the donut hole – Medicare [...]
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