See the December 29 post and enter your practice’s goals for 2009. Include a plan by which your will achieve the goals. The best plan wins a $15 gift card from Amazon.
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I’ve been storing up some links and today seemed to be a good time to have at ‘em! They range from the scary (Health Policy and Market) to the fun (the Efficient MD’s slide show.)
Read The Country Doc Report for another take on the group visit. Country Doc relates how his practice does a group diabetic [...]
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America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has released a plan on how to reduce health care costs. The platform is summarized below:
The new reform proposal would:
Ensure universal coverage by guaranteeing coverage for pre-existing conditions, fixing the health care safety net, giving tax credits to working families and enacting an individual coverage requirement;
Call on the nation to set [...]
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All right, pencils out, notebooks at the ready! Quiz to follow! Here is Part II of Resuscitating Primary Care. At our last session, we noted the primary care was indeed a “code-blue/COR-0″. As promised, I will apply my laser sharp focus to “fixing” this problem.
Buckle up!
You are a shrink. This is another unavoidable issue. [...]
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As promised, I will turn my laser like focus to the task of “fixing” primary care. I will examine both micro and macro ways of doing this, coming up with to do lists that physicians can implement in their practices as well as global suggestions that will take shifts in health care policy. (Which only we [...]
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I have been in practice for 15 years, and most of my colleagues hate primary care. (Remember, I come from a cohort of internists, the ones that should be the defenders primary care!) In my rovings as the ExtraMD I still do some primary care, to keep me honest, and to remind me how hard [...]
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Fighting with insurers isn’t something I anticipated doing when I was in my “save the world through medicine” phase (?haze?) during medical school, but none the less, here we are! I came across an interesting article in Modern Medicine titled: “You Can Negotiate With Health Plans,” by Robert Lowes, from the Jan 4, 2008 edition. I will [...]
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