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  • OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion Allowing Free Pharmaceutical Product To Patients

    OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion Allowing Free Pharmaceutical Product To Patients

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    By Jim Hoover, Burr & Forman LLP On January 15, 2025, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted a favorable Advisory Opinion regarding a program to provide free access to a pharmaceutical product to patients who meet financial and other eligibility criteria and who do not have adequate coverage for the product. The Advisory Opinion…

  • Here’s How Alabamians Can Fight Insurance Red Tape That Delays Medical Care

    Here’s How Alabamians Can Fight Insurance Red Tape That Delays Medical Care

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    Alabama doctors and patients frustrated with delays in care caused by insurance companies’ prior authorization process now have a new way to share their stories and promote change. A new online platform — www.ALFixPriorAuth.com — invites Alabamians to share their experiences with prior authorization problems. The website and the initiative behind it to encourage faster…

  • Can We Fix Alabama’s Rural Physician Shortage?

    Can We Fix Alabama’s Rural Physician Shortage?

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    It takes up to 10 years to train a physician. That decade of training is just one contributing factor for the reason the United States is facing a serious shortage of physicians. Other factors include the growth and aging of the population and the impending retirements of older physicians. While medical schools have increased enrollment…

  • For the First Time, Employed Physicians Outnumber Self-Employed

    For the First Time, Employed Physicians Outnumber Self-Employed

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    CHICAGO — For the first time in the United States, employed physicians outnumber self-employed physicians, according to a newly updated study on physician practice arrangements by the American Medical Association. This milestone marks the continuation of a long-term trend that has slowly shifted the distribution of physicians away from ownership of private practices. Employed physicians were 47.4…

  • Legislation Introduced to Tackle Doctor Shortages

    Legislation Introduced to Tackle Doctor Shortages

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell (D-AL) and John Katko (R-NY) have introduced legislation that would take critical steps towards reducing nationwide physician shortages by boosting the number of Medicare-supported residency positions. The Resident Physician Shortage Act (H.R. 1763) would support an additional 3,000 positions each year for the next five years, for a…

  • Senior Physicians: We Need Your Voices!

    Senior Physicians: We Need Your Voices!

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    Any physician that has reached the age of 65 is considered by the American Medical Association and the Medical Association to be a Senior Physician, even if you are not currently working in a medical practice. That does not mean your voice cannot still work for the House of Medicine. Did you know the Medical…

  • Can I Get a Witness? Do You Use Chaperones in the Exam Room?

    Can I Get a Witness? Do You Use Chaperones in the Exam Room?

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    In 2018, the world of sports was rocked with the revelation that Larry Nassar, a physician for USA Gymnastics, used medical examinations as a pretext to molest nearly three hundred female gymnasts over a twenty-year period. Many of these young athletes were abused while their parents were in the examination room. News coverage of the…

  • REPORT: Nearly Half of Resident Physicians Report Burnout

    REPORT: Nearly Half of Resident Physicians Report Burnout

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    ROCHESTER, Minn. – Resident physician burnout in the U.S. is widespread, with the highest rates concentrated in certain specialties, according to research from Mayo Clinic, OHSU and collaborators. The findings appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Physician burnout is a dangerous mix of exhaustion and depersonalization that contributes to physicians making mistakes while administering…

  • Let’s Talk About Physician Burnout

    Let’s Talk About Physician Burnout

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    According to Medscape’s 2018 Annual Physician Lifestyle Report, Burnout and Depression Section, 42 percent of physicians surveyed have reported burnout symptoms in the last year. Fifteen percent of physicians admitted to experiencing either clinical or colloquial forms of depression. The National Institute of Mental Health reports 6.7 percent of all American adults suffered at least…

  • Demand for Non-Physician Providers Rose to Make Up for Physician Shortage

    Demand for Non-Physician Providers Rose to Make Up for Physician Shortage

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    The Medical Group Management Association has released its 2018 MGMA DataDive Provider Compensation Survey revealing primary care physicians’ compensation rose by more than 10 percent over the past five years. This increase, which is nearly double that of specialty physicians’ compensation over the same period, is further evidence of the worsening primary care physician shortage…