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BY HANS DUVEFELT Conclusion: For every hour physicians provide direct clinical face time to patients, nearly 2 additional hours is spent on EHR and desk work within the clinic day. Outside officeContinue reading...

Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, LDI Senior Fellow and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Assistant Professor, has been named a 2024 recipient of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) Young Physician Scientist Award. The annual award, a recognition of a physician scientist's early-career achievements, will be presented at the joint annual meeting of […]

Jacob Elberg (Seton Hall Law School) has posted Ain't No Sunshine: Bringing Physician Conflicts Out of the Dark (University of Richmond Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Many mechanisms have been tried to protect patients from the...

The following first appeared in Health Affairs Forefront on April 4th, 2024. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) remains committed to episode-based payment models as part of its multidimensional strategy to advance accountable care. Its most recent bundled payment program, Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced, has been extended through 2025. In 2023, CMS announced plans to develop a new […]

Medicare pays for physician services on the basis of a fee schedule. For many years now, payment rates have not been updated for general inflation. This has left Medicare payment policy vulnerable to the sharp increases in general inflation that are now being experienced. Physicians have already experienced and are likely to continue to face…

BY MICHAEL MILLENSON In 1767, as American colonists' protestations against "taxation without representation" intensified, a Boston publisher reprinted a book by a British doctor seemingly tailor-made for the growing spirit of independence.Continue reading...

BY JEFF GOLDSMITH Robert Frost once said,  "Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." Increasingly, in our struggling society, that place is your localContinue reading...

Like other "must pass" bills of recent years, this consolidated appropriations bill, or "minibus," is also carrying other non-appropriation measures that are either time-sensitive or are broadly viewed by both parties as high priorities.
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The growth of private equity investment in health care is facing sharp scrutiny from investors, regulators, and the public. Some view private equity as a key to transforming the U.S. health system. Others raise concerns that profits for corporate investors will be at the expense of patients' health, workers' safety, and affordability. LDI Senior Fellows […]

Patients who leave the hospital and enter a skilled nursing facility (SNF) are usually in need of complex care, and a substantial number return to the hospital within 30 days. An interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, physical therapists, and other clinicians directs SNF patient care, but the timing of when patients first see the physician […]

What can Tweets tell us about the psychological and mental health of emergency medicine physicians and trainees? Quite a bit, according to LDI Senior Fellows Anish K. Agarwal and Sharath Chandra Guntuku. Agarwal, Guntuku, and their team recently published a study that used machine learning to examine Twitter posts from emergency medicine physicians and residents […]