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Within the same hospital, some doctors are three times more likely to prescribe an opioid than other doctors, and patients treated by high-prescribing doctors are more likely to become long-term opioid users.
According to the AMA, about 280,000 international medical graduates practice in the U.S. today, about one in four doctors.
Growth in the use and intensity of medical services, however, is projected to slow.
Both removed from CreditWatch, where they were placed in July 2016 when Aetna borrowed $10.2 billion to pay for the merger.
System shifts cost estimation, financial assistance and post-discharge collections to an automated framework.
About 38 percent of CIOs plan to invest the majority of their capital investment in EHR system optimization over the next three to five years.
With Tom Price leading the Department of Health and Human Services, the powerful group of conservative physicians takes center stage.
The rule proposes to shorten the 2018 open enrollment period from Nov. 1 to Dec.15 to align the marketplaces with the employee and Medicare insurance markets.
A careful analysis of some of the GOP's talking points show a much more nuanced situation and suggest that the political fights over the law may have contributed to some of its problems.
More than 99 jobs out of every 1,000 in the Durham-Chapel Hill area are in healthcare.