Physician

Medicare patients who were treated by osteopathic and allopathic hospitalists received similar quality and costs of care, according to the results of research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The nonprofit organization ElevateMeD Inc. has announced its 2023-’24 Scholars Program cohort, a group of 25 underrepresented medical students from across the country who each will be awarded a $16,500 tuition-based scholarship.

Researchers from University of British Columbia have developed an artificial intelligence model that can accurately predict survival after a cancer diagnosis using physician notes from an initial oncology consult.

Most physicians who work together with other physician colleagues — as co-owners, employees and/or independent contractors — in the same organization consider themselves as part of a physician practice.

A coalition of U.S. legislators has drafted a bill that would tie annual changes in Medicare physician reimbursement to inflation as measured by the Medicare Economic Index.

NEW ORLEANS — In this video interview from the Annual Renal Physicians Association Meeting, Timothy A. Pflederer, MD, FASN, FASDIN, discusses challenges faced by nephrologists and what the association plans to focus on in 2023.

NEW ORLEANS — In this video interview from the Annual Renal Physicians Association Meeting, Timothy A. Pflederer, MD, FASN, FASDIN, reviews the association’s accomplishments during the past year.

The American Optometric Association and several state associations announced plans to oppose legislation that potentially prohibits doctors of optometry from being called doctors and physicians.

More than a decade ago, three nephrologists and a policy analyst wrote a position paper for the RAND Corporation on the potential for physician practices to treat patients with late-stage chronic kidney disease.

By Nirmala M. Sivaprakasapillai, MD