Part B News | Physician Practice Perspectives

AAFP says patients prefer physicians to NPs

03/01/2014

A study commissioned by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) shows that 72% of patients surveyed prefer physicians over nurse practitioners (NP) for their medical care.

Workflow changes could relieve primary care physician shortage

03/01/2014

Red-flagging and eliminating inefficiencies to improve patient flow may go a long way toward relieving the looming shortage of clinicians in the primary care workforce.

Seven signs providers are opening up about bad healthcare outcomes

03/01/2014

After a procedure doctors said was extremely safe, something went terribly wrong. An otherwise alert and healthy patient isn’t better, and in fact, she’s a lot worse. She’s in a coma, or she may die, or at best spend months in intensive care.

Are ACOs really different from HMOs?

03/01/2014

Accountable care organizations (ACO) aim to completely revamp how healthcare is delivered in the United States, promising better quality and lower costs. But physicians who have heard these promises before are wondering if ACOs are just the new version of HMOs, the same lofty concept dressed up in a new way.

Spending down but quality of care might not rise with ACOs

03/01/2014

New research suggests that healthcare costs may decrease when hospitals and medical groups agree to an ACO with even one insurer, but the quality of care may stay the same.

Displaying lab prices on EHR systems cuts costs

03/01/2014

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that there is great potential for significant healthcare cost reductions when physicians know the up-front cost of ordering routine lab tests.

CT screenings for lung cancer misleading

03/01/2014

Nearly one in five patients with a history of cigarette smoking who is diagnosed with lung cancer with recommended CT screening don’t have a clinically significant disease and are overdiagnosed. But scientists don’t yet have any way of knowing which ones.

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