Search results for "Health insurance"
Managing depression is worth the effort
Depression's impact on health is often profound and far-reaching, potentially equaling that of coronary artery disease. To provide clinicians with guidance on treatment of depression, ACP has released a new clinical practice guideline that underscores the severe burden of depression and outlines viable treatment options for patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/05/depression.htm
1 May 2016
ACP collaborates on study examining wasteful spending, overuse of health care services
The study will assess trends in potential overuse of bone density scans, cancer antigen 125 blood tests, and electrocardiography.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/04/26/6.htm
26 Apr 2016
Debunking HIPAA myths in the digital age
Twenty years of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act have not led physicians to full understanding of how to implement it in their offices. Four commons myths can be addressed more easily than is commonly thought.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/04/HIPAA.htm
1 Apr 2016
Patients have a right to access personal health information
Confusion exists about how and when patients can access their personal health records under the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/04/tips.htm
1 Apr 2016
Defining value and creating quality in the patient encounter
Critical questions will arise about defining and measuring value in the patient encounter when the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act goes into action.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/04/washington.htm
1 Apr 2016
Internists interacting with retail clinics
Primary care physicians are seeing more patients after they've already been to a retail health clinic. Experts say that a more patient-centered model needs to evolve to combat the ease of seeking care outside the doctor's office.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/02/retail-clinics.htm
1 Feb 2016
Merger mania, merger blues
ACP will continue to press federal and state regulators to block recently proposed insurance mergers, which may decrease choice and increase costs for patients and employers, reduce access due to changing and narrowing networks of physicians and hospitals, or prevent physicians from negotiation over provision of health services.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/02/washington.htm
1 Feb 2016
ACP offers recommendations on ‘concierge’ medicine
One recommendation states that physicians in all types of practices must honor their professional obligation to provide nondiscriminatory care, serve all classes of patients who are in need of medical care, and seek specific opportunities to observe their professional obligation to care for the poor.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2015/11/10/2.htm
10 Nov 2015
How's Obamacare doing in getting people covered?
With the Affordable Care Act in the midst of its third annual open enrollment period, more people are insured and most enrollees like their coverage. But now, it may be getting harder to sign people up.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/11/washington.htm
1 Nov 2015
1995-2004: The big merger
After years of effort and negotiation, ACP and the American Society of Internal Medicine officially merged in 1998.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/10/centennial.htm
1 Oct 2015