The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a Proposed Rule to “blend” payments for higher-level office visits, while decreasing the documentation requirements, as part of its Patients over Paperwork initiative. CMS claims […]
An iPhone app consult with a nurse practitioner at the MinuteClinic will be your first stop for primary care if the CVS vision for the future of American medicine continues unabated. And managed care continues its takeover […]
ObamaCare News Roundup curated by Jane M. Orient, M.D. The most important way in which the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased coverage is through Medicaid expansion. But California, according to the HHS inspector general […]
By Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD In the original Mission: Impossible series, against all odds, through brilliant strategizing the good guys thwart stealth communist plots to undermine democracies. In trying to provide affordable, quality, personalized […]
LBJ and Nixon brought us the insatiable Medicare/Medicaid entitlement and the predatory managed-care monster that feeds off these cash cows (AAPS News, July 2018). They and their successor also set us up for the impending […]
If you’re thinking about signing a DPC contract with someone other than your patient, you need to carefully evaluate the implications of what you’re agreeing to. There will undoubtedly be many variations of DPC arrangements […]
The Trump Administration is liberalizing the rules to allow more people to have short-term, limited duration health insurance, but the rule is on a “crash course with a brick wall in California,” according to Kaiser Health News. […]
By: Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. We stand at the crossroads of liberty or despotism. Each day the news brings examples of assaults on life and liberty. These include: Hospitals and doctors being pushed into following […]
Today, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) asked GOP Doctors Caucus chairs, Rep. Phil Roe and Rep. Andy Harris, to rethink their support for trapping more small, independent physicians’ practices in Medicare red […]
The House is on break for August but the Senate is staying in DC, except for the week of Aug. 6. In this latest edition of legislative update, Marilyn M. Singleton, MD, JD looks at […]
