Author: wasaque
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Could A Smaller, Independent Practice Save You From Physician Burnout?
Physician burnout is a huge problem plaguing more than half of doctors today, according to certain studies. Aside from the health risks to the doctors themselves, this is a problem that is now affecting patients directly, with burnout leading to a higher likelihood of medical errors. But one study, published in the Journal of the…
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How LA’s Workers’ Compensation DROP Program Is Being Abused
In Los Angeles, there is something known as the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP), a program that allows retirement-age police officers and firefighters to collect their pensions while continuing to work and receive paychecks, essentially getting twice the pay for the last few years of service. In theory, it makes sense. It allows for precincts…
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How President Trump Is Changing The Country’s Health Care
The Trump administration has been determined to make improvements to the American health care system. And they are beginning to make progress on that front. Their stated goal has been to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (or ACA). The ACA – or ‘Obamacare’ – had its positives but it also had its flaws.…
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The Dyad Model: Why Doctors Need Administrators Too
In a medical practice, the physicians are, for obvious reasons, the most valuable members. But it is becoming increasingly clear that in today’s time, particularly in a privately owned practice, doctors can’t do it alone. There are too many operational tasks that don’t actually require a clinician’s expertise, and every minute doctors spend accomplishing these…
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Tasks That Doctors Can Delegate To Support Staff
Physicians who run their own practices have plenty of work on their plate. Many are involved in all of the different aspects of the business, and while that is admirable, it also means longer hours and an increasing problem of stress and burnout among medical professionals. And while more are acknowledging that a team-based approach is…
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Multiple Body Parts Claims – How Fraudsters Are Abusing California’s Workers’ Comp Laws
California workers’ compensation claims involving multiple body parts is on the rise, according to a recent Los Angeles Times data analysis report. The report showed that claims involving five or more body parts – which, up until the mid-2000s, has been the least common – have now become the most common in the state of…