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Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient

A Country Doctor Writes

In today’s reality, with Meaningful Use, ACOs and Patient Centered Medical Homes, we have to screen for various conditions and risk factors, update medication lists, immunizations and family and social history in every single visit. Government.

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KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn’t

Physician's Weekly

” Curtailing the practice, through which medical providers effectively inflate diagnoses and procedures to charge more, has bipartisan support and could increase the savings by reducing the amount the government pays for care. The post KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’:

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Feds Investigate Hospitals Over Religious Exemptions From Gender-Affirming Care

Physician's Weekly

An administration release announcing the probe says the Michigan case is the third investigation in “a larger effort to strengthen enforcement of laws protecting conscience and religious exercise” for medical providers, citing federal laws known as the Church Amendments.