By the time Alan Chrisman was diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer, he was too sick to work. The cancer had spread to his lungs. His doctors said he may never get better. Chrisman, 59, applied for disability, the federal safety net program he contributed to with every paycheck during his 30 years working as a stonemason. But a doctor hired by Tennessee’s Disability Determination Services to review applications quickly concluded Chrisman wasn’t sick enough to get the $804 monthly benefit.
The number of full-time equivalent primary care physicians providing direct patient care in Delaware in 2018 declined about 6 percent from 2013, a trend that resulted in a slightly lower percentage of physicians statewide who are accepting new patients, according to a new University of Delaware study of the primary care physician workforce commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Services.
The Intermountain Cancer Center of St. George is prepared to begin treating patients at its new Dixie Regional Medical Center River Road location, offering spacious rooms, new equipment and a patient-centered design. Patients can begin receiving treatment at the new cancer center, located at 1380 E. Medical Center Drive, starting Jan. 7. Most of the equipment and administrative offices have already been moved, and the new precision genomic labs are already in use.
With physicians’ compensation from pharmaceutical and medical device companies under increasing scrutiny, payments to doctors in Connecticut for consultant work rose to $8.5 million in 2017, up from $8 million in 2016. Payments for meals, travel and gifts also increased slightly from $3.2 million in 2016 to $3.5 million in 2017, data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services show.
An Ohio doctor accused of making anti-Semitic remarks on social media, including a tweet in which she allegedly said she would give Jewish people the wrong medication, was fired from the medical center she worked at, officials said.
In many rural communities across Texas, the health care delivery systems are on life-support or nonexistent, leaving too many Texans vulnerable with limited or no access to care. In a state as resourceful as Texas, this is unacceptable.