Tag: author
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It Began with an Email with Stephen Russell, M.D.
LEEDS – Benjamin Franklin said, “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” For Leeds family physician Stephen Russell doing both comes naturally. As an associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Russell is living his research for the characters he writes in his works…
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Physicians Call for Prior Authorization Reform
The Medical Association has joined a coalition of physicians’ groups, hospitals, medical groups, pharmacists and other health care organizations to urge health plans, benefit managers and other groups to reform prior authorization requirements imposed on medical tests, procedures, devices and medications. The coalition is responding to what has been deemed unreasonable hurdles for patients seeking…
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Between Doctors & Patients: Prior Authorizations
Physicians face various regulatory and administrative hurdles in a day, but few are as frustrating, or as expensive, as prior authorizations, or PAs. Commercial insurance companies, Medicaid, Medicare and other third-party interests use PAs to reduce costs. This leaves physicians and their staff wondering when the practice of medicine became more about the dollars and…