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Physicians Practice  June 5, 2024 Steven Goldberg, MD Maren S. Fragala, PhD People are often unaware of all the expenses associated with healthcare, until they are racking up their own medical bills. With a disease diagnosis, for instance, medical expenses can include the doctor’s visits, prescriptions, diagnostic tests, surgery and devices. Health insurance can help,

Scott Becker and Molly Gamble – Becker’s Hospital Review 1. Healthcare has a simple math problem. The population of the United States is more than 334 million people, and we have 1.1 million active physicians. We are hyper short on primary care physicians and specialists, with one of the lower counts of physicians per capita

Mackenzie Bean (Twitter) – Becker’s Clinical Leadership The data comes from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, an annual poll conducted by the Health Resources and Services Administration and U.S. Census Bureau. The latest version of the survey, released in March, includes responses from 49,234 registered nurses polled in 2022 and early 2023. HRSA

Madeline Ashley – Becker’s Hospital Review The workforce has seen an influx of changes and trends come and go in a post-pandemic world, with more employees taking the reins and standing up for new, flexible ways to get their jobs done. One such trend catching on lately is the “unbossed culture.” The term describes a

Mackenzie Bean (Twitter) —  Becker’s Clinical Leadership As chief clinical officer of UNC Health and president of UNC Physicians in Chapel Hill, N.C., Matt Ewend, MD, keeps his ears peeled for one seemingly innocuous word, as it almost always represents an opportunity to break down barriers and help team members improve their collaboration and communication.

Physicians Practice – February 5, 2024 Will O’Connor, MD Communication is the key to ensuring health and wellness don’t get lost in transition. Everyone I’ve met in a long career in health care is dedicated to patients. Helping people is the reason we get into this challenging, sometimes nerve-wracking field to begin with. Yet, ironically,

Giles Bruce – Becker’s Health IT Health system leaders told Becker’s they’re not surprised by the failure of Walmart Health given the arduous economics of healthcare and the difficulty of providing primary care at scale. Walmart said April 30 it would be closing its 51 Walmart Health Centers and virtual care offerings five years into

— Manufacturers of brand-name drugs will try every tack to delay generic entry, experts say by Shannon Firth , Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today May 21, 2024 Senators and experts on Tuesday examined the range of tools that brand-name drug manufacturers have used to keep generic and biosimilar competition at bay — from patent thickets and