Physician-Assisted Suicide Has Been Legal in California for a Year. How’s it Going? California’s End of Life Option Act went into effect on June 9, 2016. The law created a process for dying patients to ask their doctors for a lethal prescription that the patients can then ingest privately, at home. Since then, at least 500 Californians have received life-ending prescriptions, according to newly released data collected by Compassion and Choices, an advocacy group that promotes aid-in-dying laws nationwide. Read More... June 8, 2017 General, Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
Preparing Your Practice for Value-Based Care How will this module help me adopt a value-based care model? Five STEPS to prepare your practice for value-based health care Answers to common questions about becoming a value-focused organization Case vignettes describing how physicians can create value-based practices https://www.stepsforward.org/modules/value-based-care May 19, 2017 Medicare 0 0 Comment Read More »
New Medicare Rules Should Help ‘High Need’ Patients Get Better Treatment Doctors have complained for years that they’re not paid adequately for time-consuming work associated with managing care for seriously ill older patients: consulting with other specialists, talking to families and caregivers, interacting with pharmacists and more. That will change on Jan. 1, as a new set of Medicare regulations go into effect. Read More... December 22, 2016 Medicare 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMS eliminates penalties for first year of MACRA and offers “pick your pace” options The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on September 8 that it will allow physicians to choose the level and pace at which they comply with the new MACRA Medicare payment reforms. Participating at any level in 2017 will ensure that you will not be hit with payment penalties in 2019. Read More... October 7, 2016 Medicare 0 0 Comment Read More »
Physicians react to surgeon general’s opioid plea In what is believed to be the first such action by someone holding his post, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, is sending a letter to the nation’s 2.3 million prescribing physicians urging them to help solve the growing opioid epidemic. Read More... September 15, 2016 Public Health 0 0 Comment Read More »
