Help your needy patients get free medication
Enroll them in assistance programs offered by pharmaceutical manufacturersand watch the quality of their lives improve.
Washington Beat
Legislation; Medicare; Fraud'N'Abuse
Snake oil on the Internet
"It's a physician's duty to expose fraud if he suspects it"
That's the belief of dermatologist Andrew Hendricks, who blew the whistle on a giant lab. After several tense years, his lawsuit reaped $182 million for the Feds.
After playing with fire, this group went down in flames
Founded on a dream in the 1930's, the Burns Clinic collapsed in a nightmare of the '90s, as the cozy collegiality of its physicians gave way to managed care anxiety and a me first attitude.
Practice Beat
See Medicaid patients without going broke
This pediatrician's winwin partnership with his state bureaucracy gives indigent children a medical homeand the practice a profit.
On the notion that doctors are not God
Ed MemoOn the notion that doctors are not God
Would a cost conscious physician order this MRI?
A "my patient comes first" attitude may deny care to patients who need it more, these experts say.
Doctors are selling the fountain of youth
The anti-aging movement attracts patients willing to spend heavily to look and feel younger -- and doctors eager to cater to them.
