Jeffrey Bendix

“Physician recipients of peer support reported improved well-being, decreased negative emotions and stigma, and perceived positive cultural changes within their departments,” the authors wrote.

In the survey, 81% of residents in their final year of training reported that they sometimes, often, or always experienced feelings of burnout during their training.

While practice ownership has declined among physicians of all ages, the sharpest drop occurred among doctors under age 45.

“Together, these changes will help ensure enrollees have consistent access to medically- necessary care while also maintaining medical management tools that emphasize the important role MA plans play in coordinating medically-necessary care,” CMS said.

The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, investigated whether ascribing racial differences in health to genetics or culture rather than social conditions is associated with race-based practice.

Key benefit to expansion of telehealth lies in expanded access.

“I think that, as is often the case with public health policy, we underestimated the difficulty of achieving the goals we were aiming for,” said Blumenthal, David Blumenthal, MD, MPP.

“The science on pain care has advanced over the past six years,” said Debbie Dowell, MD, MPH, chief clinical research officer for CDC’s Division of Overdose Prevention.

The study authors call health care worker burnout a “parallel pandemic that will be felt for many years to come.”

The study looked at the financial impact of CMS’s 2021 expansion of its time-based billing guidelines to include time spent on previously unreimbursed tasks associated with patient visits.

Nearly two-thirds of physicians use some form of electronic exchange—either sending, receiving, or querying patient health information—with providers outside their organization.

Growth in remote work, cloud data storage present opportunities for hackers.

“These findings should mitigate possible concerns that extending licensure flexibilities will result in out-of-state clinicians luring away patients from their existing clinicians,” the study authors wrote.

The problem is especially acute among women doctors and members of racial and ethnic minority groups, who are subject to such behavior far more often than are white men.

Survey respondents spent an average of 1.77 hours per day outside of office hours completing EHR documentation.

For their analysis, the study authors linked Medicare claims data to self-reported feelings of burnout and callousness among more than a thousand family physicians seeking to renew their board certifications.

Although a hospital or health system may experience a revenue gain, the profits frequently do not trickle down to the physicians from the acquired practice.

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