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Medicaid Fraud War Room flags $203 million; nearly 10,000 UC physicians move to unionize; Fauci takes the Fifth — Morning Medical Update Weekly Recap

Optimization or cherry-picking? The AI threat to accountable care

Why physicians consistently underestimate retirement spending

Senate health committee advances Erica Schwartz, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., for CDC director

Physician practice bankruptcies on pace for their highest level since 2019
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A primary care physician's guide to cyclosporiasis, with Molly O'Shea, M.D.
A pediatrician at the center of the country's largest cyclospora outbreak on why the official case counts are almost certainly too low, and what most labs aren't looking for.

Five surprising findings about the state of direct primary care
A national survey of 465 direct primary care physicians upends the $77-per-month benchmark and much of what the model was assumed to look like.

Another year of Medicare cuts, with Anders Gilberg of MGMA
Another conversion factor cut is on the table for 2027, and MGMA's Anders Gilberg breaks down why budget neutrality keeps forcing cuts in one specialty to pay for another and what the end of MIPS means for physicians.

Better care, shorter careers for women physicians, with Lisa Rotenstein, M.D., MBA, M.Sc.
Female physicians leave clinical practice at a median age of 49, compared with age 64 for their male colleagues, and the practice patterns patients value most may be part of what drives them out.
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2027 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule at heart of Primary Care Collaborative discussion

Two 510(k) clearances expand the synthetic bone graft's indications to include pediatric and tumor-related spinal fusion cases.


No new beds. No new staff. Just smarter decisions about where patients are treated.

The OIG's own data suggest a narrower fix than the one CMS proposed

RAND researchers put the same questions to 15 primary care physicians employed by health systems and 15 independent ones. Neither model came out ahead on all five findings.

A 2026 physician survey finds administrative hassle now drives more doctors from clinical practice than the medicine itself — and independent practices, without a back office to absorb it, feel that weight first.

‘Transparency is now the norm’ as Leapfrog Group logs data for more than 6,000 facilities nationwide.

The 510(k) clearance adds a porous 3D-printed titanium interbody with dual spike-and-screw fixation to the company's Saber cervical platform.

















