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WellStar latest to work with Walgreen retail clinics
By Modern Healthcare | October 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
WellStar Health System's urgent-care centers and physicians will work with retail clinics in eight Walgreen Co. stores to expand the scope of services available and help manage the treatment of chronic diseases.
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Reform Update: Many docs still on the fence about exchange participation
By Andis Robeznieks | October 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A new MGMA survey finds that more than half of physician practices say they had not yet decided whether they will participate in health plans sold on the new state insurance exchanges.
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Effort connects medical homes with 'essential' IT tools
By Andis Robeznieks | October 14, 2013
While the patient-centered medical home has been touted as the foundation for a better coordinated and more efficient healthcare system, experts now say medical home practices need to be connected to other parts of the healthcare system. To this end, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative...
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New Calif. law expands who can perform abortions
By Laura Olson / Associated Press | October 10, 2013
Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants in California will be allowed to perform a type of early abortion under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.
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QuadMed to acquire Novia CareClinics
By Rachel Landen | October 09, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Workplace clinic operator QuadMed announced on Oct. 9 that it will acquire Novia CareClinics within the next 30 days.
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House floats repeal of medical device tax as compromise to end government shutdown
By Andis Robeznieks | October 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A bipartisan House measure to repeal the 2.3% medical device excise tax that helps fund the healthcare reform law has been floated as compromise to end the federal government shutdown.
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MemorialCare, UC Irvine to open primary-care centers in Calif.
By Ashok Selvam | October 02, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
MemorialCare Health System and UC Irvine Health said Wednesday they will together open a string of primary-care health centers in Southern California.
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Concierge medicine offers swift access—for a price
By Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal | September 30, 2013
As insurance companies have come to dominate healthcare services, frustrated doctors and patients have turned with increasing numbers to a different kind of practice known as concierge medicine.
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After Obamacare: a debate over primary-care doctors
By MSNBC | September 27, 2013
The 48 million Americans currently lacking health insurance will have a chance to sign up for medical coverage once Obamacare goes into effect. But will there be enough doctors to care for them?
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Shortage of primary care doctors in D.C., new report finds
By Washington Post | September 26, 2013
Of the more than 8,000 physicians licensed to work in the nation's capital, only 453 of them are primary-care doctors who spend more than 20 hours a week seeing patients, according to a report released Wednesday by the D.C. Board of Medicine.
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