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Just What the Doctor Ordered: More Medicaid Reimbursements May Be On the Way For Florida Physicians

The Health Law Firm

The Health Law Firm Taking Medicaid patients can be seen as a professional obligation for health care providers. By Lance Leider, J.D., In return, good deeds should not bankrupt a practice.

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Lean Digital: How Apps and Services Can Help Control Weight

Healthcare IT Today

Gradually, alert researchers and doctors have adopted a more nuanced view of weight and strategies to change it. An important turning point was a 2005 study in JAMA published by a team led by Katherine Flegal of the Centers for Disease Control.

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Telehealth As A Solution For The Medicaid Population

HIT Consultant

Contrary to perception, access to broadband and mobile phones are not the greatest barrier to digital health among Medicaid recipients. For these groups, remote care is often more user-friendly than seeing a doctor in person. For many low-income patients, time is just as critical a barrier to care as money. population.

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Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Ask EDVa to Allow Cost-Sharing Under the AKS

Healthcare Law Blog

PCPA argues that its program is “agnostic” to the treatments selected independently by a patient’s medical provider, given that a beneficiary may receive assistance for any one of a broad range of drug and non-drug cancer services after a course of treatment that independently has been approved by the patient’s medical doctor. Doshi et al.,

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Is a Federal Medical License Constitutional?

Bill of Health

Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. As proof, they cite three cases: the Court’s 2005 ruling in Gonzales v. By Timothy Bonis. It is not just state boards’ political obstructionism standing in the way. Marino et al.,

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A Health-Heavy State of the Union

Kaiser Health News

I also want to point out that neither Republicans nor Biden have yet said that they consider Medicaid in that same untouchable category. It was before the election — suggesting that all federal programs be sunsetted every five years and then have to be reauthorized, which would include Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid.