Search results for "Primary Care"
Watch out for NAFLD, treat ASAP
Cusi said. “If they have increased cardiovascular risk but liver enzymes are elevated, many times primary care doctors stop their statins, which is very bad. … ... We should encourage primary care doctors to keep them on a statin, at least on the
April 2021
Insurance Companies Should Pay Primary Care Physicians More
Insurance Companies Should Pay Primary Care Physicians More. This post by Kevin Pho, ACP Member appeared at Better Health. ... Government officials and health insurers pay constant lip service to the importance of primary care.
March 2021
QD: News Every Day--How the primary care shortage plays out
QD: News Every Day--How the primary care shortage plays out. ACP Internist looks at how states are using grants to fix their primary care shortages. ... Alaska also needs primary care doctors, so the state senate is pushing through recruiting incentives
March 2021
Primary care tops locum tenens requests
Primary care tops locum tenens requests. The front page of today's Wall Street Journal has a story on the rising demand for temp surgeons in the face of a nationwide ... According to a survey by national locum tenens company Staff Care, primary care
March 2021
Time for Medicare to quit ignoring primary care
Let's quit admiring the problem of financial conflicts of interest and the primary care labor shortage. ... Primary care has been decimated and the RUC is to blame, pure and simple.
March 2021
Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
on racial and ethnic disparities in health care and on hate crimes as a public health issue. ... practices and FAQs and an infographic for patients, to help ambulatory practices safely resume care.
July 2020
QD: News Every Day--Novel approaches to fill primary care needs
QD: News Every Day--Novel approaches to fill primary care needs. New primary care arrangements show how primary care is evolving--or splitting apart, depending upon one's perspective. ... Even pharmacists are getting in on primary care. Blue Shield of
March 2021
Med school debt becomes budgeting burden for primary care
Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School created a model of a young primary care physician's finances. ... A monthly budget can leave a newly minted primary care doctor $800 in the hole each month.
July 2011
How to spot eating disorders in primary care
Charlotte Huff examines different strategies for making patient self-management work in a primary care office. ... As with eating disorders, primary care physicians can often be the first ones to notice a problem.
February 2013
Primary care works in cooperative, close-knit North Dakota
Miller. The state's outpatient care systems are typically also low on money and staff, which inspires more cooperation. ... Under the pilot, primary care physicians referred diabetes patients to an in-house disease management nurse for help managing
November 2008