Search results for "Health insurance"
Treating patients afraid to present
Undocumented patients pose a challenge to medical care, as they have trouble accessing and affording services. The current political environment is making it tougher for those who need help.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/10/treating-patients-afraid-to-present.htm
1 Oct 2018
Seeking a new vision for American health care
ACP's New Vision initiative will engage all of ACP's policy committees, as well as its membership, in examining what is working well and what is not with American health care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/10/seeking-a-new-vision-for-american-health-care.htm
1 Oct 2018
New Medicare identification cards begin rolling out in April
CMS will begin mailing new cards with Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) to all beneficiaries. Practices are urged to remind patients to look out for their new cards in the mail and to be sure to bring them to their next appointments.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/04/new-medicare-identification-cards-begin-rolling-out-in-april.htm
1 Apr 2018
Doctors with borders
What parameters determine ACP's responsibility to speak out on what is right and wrong, set guidelines, offer guidance, and articulate policy on behalf of internal medicine?
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/03/doctors-with-borders.htm
1 Mar 2018
Managing your online presence simply, economically
Social media takes time, a scarce and precious resource for physicians. But just a few hours a month can be enough to empower physicians in myriad ways.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/03/managing-your-online-presence-simply-economically.htm
1 Mar 2018
Preserving the Affordable Care Act despite the headwinds
Despite a treacherous political environment that posed a direct threat to ACP's efforts to preserve the historic gains in coverage from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a group of six medical societies was able to preserve key components of the program.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/02/preserving-the-affordable-care-act-despite-the-headwinds.htm
1 Feb 2018
Antithyroid drugs associated with increased congenital malformation risk when taken during the first trimester of pregnancy
The risk appeared to be higher in those who received methimazole or both methimazole and propylthiouracil versus propylthiouracil alone.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/23/1.htm
23 Jan 2018
What physicians can do about ransomware
Protecting a practice doesn't always require a large investment of money, just time and employee training.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/01/what-physicians-can-do-about-ransomware.htm
1 Jan 2018
What would a happy health care New Year look like?
There are five ways that lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats alike, and President Trump can work together on real solutions to the real problems in the American health care system.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/01/what-would-a-happy-health-care-new-year-look-like.htm
1 Jan 2018
Government service offers Fellow a chance to help millions
Mandy Krauthamer Cohen, MD, MPH, FACP, North Carolina's new secretary of its Department of Health and Human Services, sees government service as a way to help a wide constituency—patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/11/government-service-offers-fellow-a-chance-to-help-millions.htm
1 Nov 2017