Don’t blame the nation’s surgeons for an opiate-abuse crisis that now claims 142 lives daily in the United States. New research suggests that patients leaving the hospital after surgeries or inpatient procedures are rarely the ones whose long-term opioid use…
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Don’t blame the surgeons: Long-term opioid use rarely starts with surgery, study finds – LA Times
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Doctors From Top Medical Schools Prescribe Fewer Opioid Painkillers – NBC News
Doctors who got their training at low-ranked medical schools wrote three times as many opioid painkiller prescriptions as medics who earned their diplomas at Ivy League or other top-tier schools. That’s the headline of a new study by two Princeton…
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Portland doctor responds to racism in the emergency room (Column) | OregonLive.com
As white supremacists and neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, a Portland doctor tweeted about her own experience with racism here in Oregon. Dr. Esther Choo’s Twitter thread about patient prejudice in the emergency room has been shared more than 22,000 times since…
The Opioid Crisis in the United States | HuffPost
“The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I’m saying officially right now it is an emergency. It’s a national emergency. We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid…
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For Texans with shocking medical charges, bill that governor signed can’t come soon enough
When Jay Garnett began to feel severe chest pain during a workout about a year ago, his son called 911. Garnett was having a heart attack. An ambulance rushed him to the nearest hospital in Denton, where doctors saved his…
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Medical bills sometimes surprise with extra expenses – Washington Times
A Yale study, and an accompanying profile in The New York Times, made waves this month for exposing what’s called “surprise billing.” This occurs when a patient receives a high, out-of-network bill for care received at an in-network hospital. Amazingly,…
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Yale research points to Dallas company for spike in costly hospital bills- Dallas News
Dallas-based emergency room staffing company EmCare is to blame for a surge in “surprise” medical bills in Texas and other states, according to health policy and economics researchers at Yale University. EmCare and Tennessee-based TeamHealth together make up a third of…
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The Company Behind Many Surprise Emergency Room Bills – The New York Times
Early last year, executives at a small hospital an hour north of Spokane, Wash., started using a company called EmCare to staff and run their emergency room. The hospital had been struggling to find doctors to work in its E.R.,…
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How does the EHR drive burnout? Let’s count the ways.
How does the EHR drive burnout? Let’s count the ways. By understanding this, we can develop countermeasures to lower the impact and reduce the risk of physician burnout. We’ve all seen the studies that show that for every hour we…
Posted in Industry Updates, Providers Perspective
New study ranks Ohio 8th in the nation for doctors taking money from prescription opioid manufacturers
CLEVELAND, Ohio — One in five family doctors and one in 12 of all doctors have received payments from major drug companies hawking highly-addictive opioid painkillers that are, in part, at the root of America’s skyrocketing heroin epidemic, according to a new…
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