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Tag Archives: American Academy of Pediatrics
Strengthening Primary Care With a New Professional Congress
Brian Klepper Posted 10/01/12 on Medscape Connect’s Care & Cost Blog Three months ago a post on this blog argued that America’s primary care associations, societies and membership groups have splintered into narrowly-focused specialties. Individually and together, they have proved unable to resist decades … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Klepper, Conflicts of Interest, Health Care Cost, Market Dynamics, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics
Tagged American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Geriatrics Society, American Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association, Primary Care, RUC, Society of General Internal Medicine
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The ACP’s Cognitive Dissonance
Brian Klepper Relative to their specialist colleagues, primary care physicians have been generally passive about the politics that shape their professional lives, and they have been big losers. It is important for them to consider whether their societies are genuinely … Continue reading
Posted in Brian Klepper, Conflicts of Interest, Health Care Cost, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics
Tagged AAFP, AAP, ACP, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Osteopathic Association, AOA, Bob Doherty, David C. Kibbe, Paul Fischer, Primary Care
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To Snip or Not To Snip: The Politics of Male Circumcision
Patricia Salber Published 11/27/11 on The Doctor Weighs In Eighteen states, including Colorado and South Carolina have eliminated Medicaid coverage for male circumcision. Furthermore, ballot initiatives, including one attempted in my hometown San Francisco, are being discussed that would ban the procedure … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Life Sciences, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Tools
Tagged American Academy of Pediatrics, Circumcision, Pat Salber
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Why Primary Care Needs A New Organization
Paul M. Fischer First published on 6/15/11 on MedPage Today A few weeks ago, the Board of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) announced that, for now, it would continue participating in the Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), the … Continue reading
Posted in Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality, Reform
Tagged AAFP, AAP, ACP, American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, American Osteopathic Association, AOA, Health Care Cost Crisis, Medicare, Paul Fischer, Physician Payment, Primary Care, Relative Value Scale Update Committee, RUC
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