How can patients and primary care providers escape from a system that is way underfunded and way overloaded? It requires a paradigm shift in the way we reimburse primary care physicians. Hint. Gym memberships are way ahead of the curve here.
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Mr. Limbaugh to move to Costa Rica within 5 years if health care reform is passed.
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When the insurance company denies a requested test or procedure, physicians would be well advised to avoid expressing their opinions about this denial in the chart.
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Congress waited until the 13th hour to delayed automatic cuts in Medicare reimbursements of 21% – at least until April. Such a drastic cut will force many physicians to drop Medicare to avoid operating at at loss and many may decide to anyway rather than wait for inevitable. How do you opt out? You...
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No, not just Cheech and Chong. Laguna Woods Village retirement community now has a medical cannabis club even though the members are not allowed to grow it in their community garden plots. That would be like . . as if it were legal and we can’t have that.
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No you can't have your system of pure symbolic retribution. Not yours.
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Statistically speaking, we are winning the vaccine wars . .
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Human anatomy as a subway schematic
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It’s like driving with your eyes closed for five seconds or more. This is the equivalent to driving while texting (reading or writing). It’s twice as likely to cause a crash as driving while intoxicated but as of 2010, only 19 states had laws that prohibited texting while driving for ALL drivers (not just...
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So why aren't the Federal government or health insurance companies rushing to compensate and reward physicians who start using electronic medical records systems with e-prescribing ability?
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