Practice Management News

To improve the quality of care and lower costs for beneficiaries, CMS recently launched the Medicare-Medicaid Accountable Care Organization Model.

FDA today announced it was banning powdered surgeon’s gloves, powdered patient examination gloves and absorbable powder for lubricating a surgeon's glove to decrease potential risks to patients and healthcare providers. The final rule, first proposed in March, will be published December 19, and will go into effect 30 days later.

The debate over the working hours of physicians in training is heating up as requests for public comment on a new proposal that would increase the length of a shift that first-year residents are permitted to work by 12 hours closes next week.

Improving quality of health care and ensuring access to it should be priorities of the next administration, outgoing HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell wrote recently.

President-elect Donald J. Trump has pledged to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, and with a Republican-led Congress, he will most likely obtain enough votes to do so, a senior official with the ACP wrote in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States left clinicians unsure about how his administration will handle many health care initiatives and policies. Healio spoke with experts in different disciplines, including cardiology, infectious disease and endocrinology, to examine the specific ways in which his administration may address Medicare and Medicaid, NIH funding and the FDA, among other issues. All of the physicians who spoke with Healio expressed uncertainty regarding the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which Trump promised to repeal and replace during the presidential campaign.

Current intervention programs for physicians generated small but significant reductions in burnout, and interventions with an organization-directed approach were the most effective; however, these were rarely used, according to results published in JAMA Internal Medicine. These findings suggest more models that use a similar method to promote healthy individual-organization relationships are needed.

Medical students have a higher overall rate of depression than the general population, according to study results published in JAMA. These findings emphasize that effective preventive efforts and improved access to care are needed for students in medical school.

Many pharmaceutical stock prices dropped today after President-elect Donald Trump announced in an interview with Time magazine that he will attempt to bring down drug prices during his presidential term.

In 2015, the national overall and per-capita health expenditures increased by 5.8% and 5%, respectively, reaching $3.2 trillion, or $9,990 per person, according to a study by CMS published in Health Affairs.