Top Challenges 2021: #4 Hiring and retaining clinical staff
In late 2020, Medical Economics® asked our physician audience what they thought would be the most challenging issues they will face this year. This is what they told us.
Coronavirus: ACP makes vaccine recommendations
The recommendations address the role of physicians as vaccinators.
Coronavirus case numbers in the United States: January 13, 2021 update
Data from the COVID tracking project on coronavirus cases, test results, vaccination rates and more.
Clearing up confusion on the new E/M guidelines
Comparing the old guidance to the new.
Why was the Independent Practice Collaborative of Long Island established?
IPCLI and other CINs are a response to the ongoing consolidation of independent practices
Tackling obesity
How physicians are addressing obesity as a chronic condition and helping patients lose weight.
Creating a post-COVID health care system
What should a post-pandemic health care delivery system look like? And what role should primary care physicians hold in this system?
Telehealth: Hope or hype?
The pandemic brought telehealth into the mainstream, but will government and private payers make the right moves to make it a standard part of medicine?
Top Challenges 2021: #5 EHR usability
ACP seeks to address disparities, discrimination in healthcare
The organization says more needs to be done to fight aspects of health and healthcare which negatively impacts racial, ethnic, religious, and cultural communities.
Survey: Patients happy with how doctors responded to COVID-19
Despite the challenges the pandemic has presented to medical care, the vast majority of patients are happy with how their doctors met the challenges.
Coronavirus: Feds to release second vaccine doses
The Trump administration reversed course saying that the administration of vaccines has been “too narrowly focused.”
Coronavirus case numbers in the United States: January 12, 2021 update
Getting paid for remote patient monitoring
How can physicians get started on a profitable remote patient monitoring program?
Top Challenges 2021: #6 Increased competition
What is a CIN?
Juan Espinoza, MD, vice president of the Independent Pediatric Collaborative of Long Island, explains
2021 Physician payment outlook
Reimbursement trends every physician must watch for.
Top Challenges 2021: #7 Saving for retirement
Top Challenges 2021: #8 Transitioning to value-based care models
Administrative burden, lack of technology, hamper PCP Medicaid participation: study
States can increase primary care access for residents with Medicaid, new study shows.
Coronavirus: Testing inequities persist along racial lines
A study of COVID-19 testing in the St. Louis area shows the inequities still present in a critical part of fighting the pandemic.
10 cities with the highest demand for physicians in 2020
Here are the top U.S. cities with the highest demand for physicians in the year 2020.
Coronavirus: AHA calls for expedited administration of vaccines
The open letter to the HHS secretary urges him to be more transparent about the vaccine rollout.
Coronavirus case numbers in the United States: January 11, 2021 update
COVID-19 pandemic leads physicians to new hobbies
As dismal as the last year has been, the pandemic has offered a few tiny silver linings
Coronavirus case numbers in the United States: January 8, 2021 update
Survey: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy remains high
Top reasons cited to refuse the shots include questions of safety and effectiveness.
Payers not happy with CMS prior auth rule
Insurance industry group says proposed rule too much, too fast
OptumInsight and Change Healthcare to combine
The new company will seek to advance a more modern information and technology-enabled healthcare platform.
Why physicians must act now to address outpatient documentation challenges
Big changes to Medicare coding guidelines outpatient evaluation and management services haven taken effect.
