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A Complete Guide to Medical Assistant Positions in CT

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Typical tasks may include: Recording information in patients’ medical records. Providing prescription information to pharmacies. Some medical assistants work in the offices of other health practitioners, outpatient care centers, or hospitals. Scheduling patients’ tests and procedures.

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A true story of payer negotiations

Physician's Practice

Physicians, whether in small practices or employed by hospitals, face a daunting challenge when trying to get a payer to approve a medication, procedure or imaging study. The standard of care was hospital admission and surgical ablation of the obstruction to urine flow. The cost of the hospital procedure was $25,000 to $35,000.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

We start each podcast with a song in part to shift the frame, taking people out of their academic selves and into a more informal conversation. When we started doing more music stuff for our patients in the hospital, a lot of people started to think, hmm, what would I want to listen to? Like, it’s like a hospital.

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