At the annual meeting of the AMA, held June 9-14, 2017, delegates passed a resolution opposing autonomous state PA boards.
from AAPA
At the annual meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) held June 9-14, delegates passed a resolution opposing autonomous state PA boards. This resolution was introduced following AAPA’s House of Delegates approval of Optimal Team Practice (OTP) last month.
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All 10 regions ranked have significant assets that make them attractive to biopharma researchers, executives, and investors.
from GEN
It’s no surprise that Boston/Cambridge, MA, and the San Francisco Bay Area again top this year’s GEN List of the nation’s top 10 biopharma clusters, as they did last year and in 2015. Yet that’s not to say the other eight clusters rounding out the list are the proverbial chopped liver; they too have significant assets that make them attractive to biopharma researchers, executives, and investors, often drawing upon heritages that include the presence of big pharmas or home-grown biotech giants.
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Recent lawsuits are asking courts whether the current crisis is comparable to the one over tobacco in the ’90s.
from The Atlantic
Opioid abuse is rampant in states like Ohio, where paramedics are increasingly spending time responding to overdoses and where coroners’ offices are running out of room to store bodies. In 2012, there were 793 million doses of opioids prescribed in the state, enough to supply every man, woman, and child, with 68 pills each. Roughly 20 percent of the state’s population was prescribed an opioid in 2016. And Ohio leads the nation in overdose deaths.
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Users of the iHEARu app help one another locate quieter spaces and hearing technology access through sound ratings and reviews.
from The ASHA Leader
A newly launched app, iHEARu, addresses and seeks to alleviate concerns about noise exposure by helping people in the United States and across the globe find ear-friendly places to hear and be heard. The app, available for free at the iTunes App Store and at Google Play, allows people to report sound levels and share them with others. Through crowdsourcing, people can choose to avoid the noisiest times at restaurants and other places.
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As more employers opt for self-funded health plans, a growing number of physical therapists are finding ways to benefit.
from PT in Motion
Among the reasons for becoming a physical therapist (PT), the chance to work with self-insured employers likely is near the bottom of the list. After all, says Mike Horsfield, PT, MBA, ATC, the average PT in an outpatient clinic or typical owner of a physical therapy private practice “doesn’t even know when a patient’s employer is self-funded, because it doesn’t change the way that person is billed.”
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Telemedicine has been hampered by its inability to craft clinical guidelines.
from Healthcare Dive
Telemedicine is a booming sector of the healthcare industry: Investments are ramping up as health systems fine-tune their EHRs, explore remote patient monitoring and look toward population health management. But with this growth comes a need for guidance and regulation. Nearly everyone agrees this is necessary, but issues — including a lack of data, interoperability problems and segmented interests — present obstacles.
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Ultra-elite concierge practices say business is booming.
from FierceHealthcare
As millions of Americans struggle to pay their medical bills and worry that they may lose insurance coverage if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, many of the wealthiest in the nation receive five-star treatment from doctors and hospitals if they are willing to fork over a five-figure annual fee. And apparently, they are more than willing. Ultra-elite concierge practices say business is booming.
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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are getting ready to test transplanting hepatitis C-infected hearts.
from AMA Wire
As many as 1,000 infected kidneys are thrown away each year in the United States, but new medications have made hepatitis C curable — and made it possible to consider using infected organs for transplants. That could cut down on the wait time not just for kidneys but also other organs, especially hearts.
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2016 marked the first year in which physician practice ownership is no longer the majority arrangement.
from AMA Wire
Less than half of practicing physicians own their own practice, according to 2016 data collected in a nationally representative survey of 3,500 U.S.-based physicians who provide at least 20 hours of patient care per week and are not employed by the federal government.
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If a PA treats a patient but the service is billed under a physician’s NPI number, did the PA contribute any revenue to the practice?
from AAPA
If a PA performs a procedure but no one knows about it, did it really happen? If a PA treats a patient but the service is billed under a physician’s NPI number, or performs pre-op services that are covered under a global surgery payment, did the PA contribute any revenue to the practice? These kinds of questions are becoming increasingly relevant as health-care systems and public and private payers look to become more data-driven in their approach to determining the productivity and value of health professionals, and as healthcare transitions to fee-for-value reimbursement and rewarding quality.
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