AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...
Hospital employment contracts are difficult enough for physicians to understand on their own, but there is a second document that should always accompany a draft contract for review: the medical staff ...
You still see them on Turner Classic Movies: The country doctor working solo, delivering care and charging a simple fee for medical services. Not only has the health care industry changed dramatically ...
The time-wasting, care-delaying, insurance company cost-control process known as prior authorization has gone from a rarely employed tool to discourage use of extremely pricey interventions to a form ...
AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...
The Kaiser Permanente Advanced Care at Home program combines home visits, telehealth encounters and remote patient monitoring connected to specialized command centers that coordinate services to help ...
Member, Texas Medical Association since 1984; elected emeritus member in 2020 Member, Texas Medical Association Delegation to the AMA HOD in 1984, served as alternate (84-92) and then delegate (93-01) ...
AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians, residents, medical students and patients. From private practice and health system leaders to scientists and public ...
After fighting for physicians during the pandemic, the AMA is taking on the next extraordinary challenge: Renewing the nation’s commitment to physicians. Unger: Hello and welcome to the AMA Update ...
About half of U.S. adults have hypertension or high blood pressure, a primary or contributing cause of more than 925,000 deaths due to cardiovascular disease per year in the U.S. The effort to control ...
Kill the cancerous tissue with radiation therapy and leave the healthy tissue untouched. Save the patient while sparing them as much as possible from treatment side effects. These are simple oncologic ...
After a routine review of practice operations in mid-February, Omar Maniya, MD, opted to extend the line of credit for the 40-employee New Jersey primary care physician practice that he serves as CEO.