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Jan 31 2014

According to a Medical Economics survey, the primary concerns among physicians are reimbursement,  paperwork, health care reform and outside interference with their practice decisions and many are frustrated by health information technology systems.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/01/health-catalyst-nabs-41-mln/
Jan 29 2014

A Wall Street Journal article discusses the reaction to the Veteran's Administration decision to let nurse practitioners treat patients without physician supervision, which many doctors oppose, largely in a bid to protect their turf.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304856504579340603947983912?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304856504579340603947983912.html
Jan 23 2014

A perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine points out that although the Medicare physician value-based purchasing program starts this year, doctors generally are unprepared and unengaged and there are more issues with this program than the comparable one for hospitals, including a lack of predecessor programs, sample size and measure issues and reward/penalty design.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1311957
Jan 17 2014

HHS notice on obtaining Medicare physician spending data

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-01-17/pdf/2014-00808.pdf
Jan 14 2014

HHS has announced that it will begin releasing physician level utilization data on a case-by-case basis.  This is a huge development that will allow the identification of physician practice patterns and an understanding of which doctors may be engaging in inappropriate overuse.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140114/NEWS/301149951?AllowView=VDl3UXk1TzRDL0NCbkJiYkY0M3hlMEtvaTBVZEQrYz0=&utm_source=link-20140114-NEWS-301149951&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
Dec 20 2013

According to an Ipsos poll, 72% of Americans prefer to be cared for by a doctor instead of a nurse practitioner, and a similar number would prefer that a loved one receive care from a physician.

http://ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=6361
Dec 17 2013

The Physicians Foundation has identified five key areas affecting doctors in 2014, including monopolization by payers and health systems, regulatory burdens, confusion due to health reform, and HIT not fulfilling its promise.

http://www.physiciansfoundation.org/news/the-physicians-foundation-releases-2014-watch-list
Dec 13 2013

ZocDoc, which facilitates online health care appointments, released a report summarizing utilization of its services, finding that most physicians are highly rated after the visit and listing differences by gender and trends in appointments.
Dec 12 2013

According to the Medical Group Management Association practices costs to support a physician continue to rise significantly, led by IT costs which increased by by 28% per physician from 2008 to 2012.

http://www.mgma.com/press/default.aspx?id=1375452
Dec 10 2013

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the current cost over the next ten years of repealing the SGR physician payment formula and using a zero update during that time is $116 billion and replacing it with a .5% annual update is $136 billion.  This cost is down substantially from the $271 billion repeal cost estimated a couple of years ago.

http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/2013%20SGR%20Options%20-%20Final%20Rule.pdf
Nov 21 2013

A scale that measures the relationships that patients and physicians have appears to show that poor relationships lead to perceptions of poorer quality according to a study in the Annals of Family Medicine.

http://www.annfammed.org/content/11/6/543.full
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