Patients need to be able to access comprehensive reproductive health services without undue government interference, including abortion, says the American College of Physicians (ACP) in a new policy paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
Physicians nationwide scrambled to set up telehealth, a critical tool that allowed them to see patients at the height of the pandemic. There wasn’t necessarily the time then to thoroughly vet telehealth platform vendors or perfectly refine workflows in the office.
There are three essential components to a working value-based contract: it must: 1) focus on real and meaningful patient outcomes to which payers and manufacturers can agree; 2) provide the payer with meaningful value; and 3) be simple and easy to execute.
A group of Democratic and Republican senators are asking the Biden administration to extend a policy that helps rural hospitals retain staff in areas with low wages.
“There are three things America’s hospitals have in common right now: sicker patients, a smaller workforce and higher labor and supply costs,” writes AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack in an op-ed today in Real Clear Health, outlining three ways Congress and others can help.