Practice Management News

New data in MMWR showed that underrepresented populations had higher rates of excess mortality in 2020, and that COVID-19 was largely responsible for excess deaths among adults aged 25 years and older.

Research has shown that many patients in the LGBTQIA+ community experience health care discrimination and avoid health care out of fear of mistreatment.

HHS will award approximately $19.2 million to support “telehealth innovation and quality nationwide,” the agency said in a press release.

The AMA said today that the CPT code set has been updated to include codes for a third dose of the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines.

Black adults reported experiencing discrimination or unfair judgment in health care settings at triple the rate of white adults and double the rate of Hispanic or “Latinx” adults, according to recent survey data.

Humanigen has announced that its antibody lenzilumab increased the likelihood of survival among certain Black and African American patients with COVID-19.

With summer 2021 here, more than 150 million Americans vaccinated for COVID-19, sports played in full arenas and many activities nearly back to normal, we think a column on financial lessons that can be learn from the pandemic is needed.

There was little to no increase in the percentage of Black or Hispanic men among physicians, surgeons, pharmacists and dentists between 2000 and 2019, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

A project that restructured primary care health professional shortage area designations could improve the distribution of primary care clinicians and resources in the United States, according to a recent analysis in JAMA Network Open.

In a recent survey, patients said they viewed physicians in casual attire such as a fleece jacket in place of a white coat as less professional and less experienced.