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Steward buy could add 3,000 doctors to Optum’s physician network, regulator says

Health Care Dive

A Thursday board meeting among Massachusetts regulators shed more light on UnitedHealth’s proposed buy of Stewardship Health.

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CMS finalizes 2024 Medicare hospital, doctor payments, 340B fix and price transparency requirements

Health Care Dive

Regulators finalized a number of rules Thursday with sweeping implications for providers in the Medicare program, including rates for next year that doctors and hospitals slammed as insufficient.

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Should TikTok Doctors Owe Any Duty of Care Toward Their Followers?

Bill Of Health

By Sarah Gabriele Doctors are now using social media platforms to spread medical knowledge and to interact with the communities that they are actively building. A recent survey showed that almost 1 in 5 Americans now turn to TikTok before their doctor for health advice.

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How to Market to Doctors, Physicians, and Other Health Care Professionals

Healthcare Success

Marketing to doctors, physicians, surgeons, and other health care professionals can be extremely challenging, complicated, and expensive. What’s more, most doctors work in a hospital or multilocation medical practice, making it even more challenging to identify key decision-makers. Step 1: How to Define Your Doctor Audience .

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HHS proposes ‘powerful’ penalties for providers found information blocking

Health Care Dive

Regulators on Monday proposed a long-awaited rule tying payments for hospitals and doctor’s offices in three popular Medicare programs to compliance with data-sharing regulations.

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Do doctors know enough about the commercial determinants of health?

Healthy Debate

We need cross-industry regulation to challenge private interests in health policy. Private sector activities have a real impact on health.

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Primary care practices identify needed improvements for telemedicine

Healthcare It News

They also said clinicians reported needing more formal training on how to communicate more effectively over a virtual platform and about state regulation. Regulations that varied widely also affected their use of telehealth platforms. But the telehealth boom during the pandemic proved virtual primary care inspires several value-ads.