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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Recognizing their potential to save money and improve outcomes, in 2013 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began allowing practices to bill separately for transitional care management (TCM) services that included an interactive contact within two business days of discharge and a dedicated face-to-face office visit within 14 days.

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Identifying and managing gambling-related harms

Common Sense Family Doctor

A recent article in the BMJ summarized a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on identification and management of gambling-related harms. Although prevalence estimates in North America are low (1.5% of women, 2.7%

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In asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis, is earlier intervention better?

Common Sense Family Doctor

A recent editorial in the Journal of the American Heart Association discussed a “paradigm shift” in management of severe aortic stenosis: 69% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who underwent aortic valve replacement from 2012-2019 had TAVI, with the percentage undergoing SAVR falling from 75% in 2012 to just 10% in 2019.