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Doctors Want Face Time With Patients, Not Screen Time With CMS
by Michael Hamilton August 22, 2016The health care industry has entered a brave new world in which doctors spend up to half the length of each appointment looking past their patients at their computer monitors. Despite these appearances, doctors do prefer to treat the patient in front of them, not stare at the computer screen next to them.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Mike Koriwchak: CMS’s Arbitrary Doctor Rating System
by Michael Hamilton June 16, 2016In today’s Health Care News podcast, returning guest Dr. Mike Koriwchak, vice president of Docs4PatientCare Foundation and co-host of The Doctor’s Lounge Radio Show, urged listeners to take advantage of the comment period, open through June 27, 2016 at 11:59 PM ET, for a new rule proposed for implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS