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Medicaid primary care pay: The next SGR?
Putting Medicaid primary care rates on par with Medicare’s raises concerns that doctors will face a new kind of payment cliff after just two years.

More newborns showing ill effects of maternal opioid use
The number of newborns diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome nearly tripled in 10 years due to increasing opiate use among pregnant women, a new study shows.

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  Former Medicare chiefs say SGR must be eliminated
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  Massachusetts hospitals launch patient apology program
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  3 ways doctors can take on insurers
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  The cost of fighting medical liability lawsuits
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  Physicians key in tackling the nation’s obesity epidemic

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• Contract Language »
  Contracts can make hospital employment less secure than doctors think
• Ethics Forum »
  How to talk to patients about genetic testing
• In the Courts »
  Minnesota ruling could put medical staff rights at risk
• Leader Commentary »
  A year of AMA successes helped patients and doctors
• Meetings »
  Everything in medicine is going mobile (HIMSS meeting)
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  N.Y. emergency physician finds happiness with goat dairy farm
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  The best ways to market your practice at local events
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  Should doctors stop patients from taking smartphone pictures?

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