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Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient

A Country Doctor Writes

Ironically, back when we were jumping through the hoops of Patient Centered Medical Home recognition, we got zero credit for squeezing sick patients into our schedule the same day they called - we qualified only if we had at least one “acute” slot designated in our daily schedule, even if nobody used it. Government.

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‘Til I Hear It From Congress: FDASLA to Direct Publication of Final OTC Hearing Aid Rules

FDA Law

This provision adds nothing substantive to the OTC hearing aid regulatory scheme—it merely tells FDA that it has 30 days from enactment of the user fee legislation to issue its final rules governing OTC hearing aids. Directing FDA to issue rules isn’t out of the ordinary.

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PRESS RELEASE: Coalition Acts to Protect Pregnant Patients’ Federal Right to Emergency Care, Including Abortion

Doctors for America

This federal law has required hospitals with emergency departments to provide stabilizing treatment, including abortion, to patients experiencing medical emergencies for nearly four decades. Through its intervention, Doctors for America seeks to ensure that the right to emergency abortion care under EMTALA is vigorously defended.

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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. Anna Edney: KFF Health News’ “ Two Patients Faced Chemo.

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Navigating Executive Orders and DOJ Memos That Threaten Criminal Prosecution

FDA Law

Specifically, these are procedures and drugs used in providing what HHS had, until recently, referred to as gender-affirming care. Department of Health & Human Services purporting to provide a comprehensive review of the evidence and best practices for promoting the health of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria.