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Apr 24 2018

Today's dohhh moment is provided courtesy of research conducted by MD Anderson and published in JAMA Oncology.  The researchers found that patients that doctor who weren't using a computer during their interaction were more compassionate and had better communication skills.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2678462?redirect=true
Jan 18 2018

A survey from the American Medical Group Association finds that profitability per physician declined for the average group practice in 2017, from an operating loss of about 10% of revenue in 2016 to around 17.5%.  Operating revenue per doctor increased somewhat.  Private practices had operating gains while health system owned practices had large losses, and smaller practices performed worse than did large ones.  If the survey results are accurate, this should add pressure to increase physician reimbursements by payers.

http://www.amga.org/wcm/AboutAMGA/News/2018/20180108.aspx
Jan 17 2018

Here is how not to do good research.  In a study in Health Services Research the authors talked to executives at physician practices to determine if a switch to being owned by a health system lessened patient responsiveness and concluded from the interviews that it did not.  What do you expect them to say?  Maybe you should talk to patients or use some objective measures.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29143325
Nov 10 2017

2018 Medicare Final Rule on Physician Reimbursement

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2017-23953.pdf
Oct 04 2017

According to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, comparing online quality ratings of 78 doctors to more objective quality performance measures indicates that online reviews aren't worth much.  This is likely because consumers rate quality on much they like a physician and other intangibles.

https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jamia/ocx083/4107665/Online-physician-ratings-fail-to-predict-actual?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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