Travel Ban Will Hit U.S. Healthcare Where it Hurts: Primary Care

Of all the people affected by President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending immigration from six Muslim-majority nations, one group is of particular importance to the U.S. health care system: foreign-born doctors and medical trainees. About one-quarter of the physician workforce is comprised of international medical graduates, which comprise 280,000 doctors in total, according to the American Medical…

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Healthcare Reimbursement Based On Quality Outcomes

Necessary. Life-saving. Wellness. All terminology and codes for health care sought by consumers and covered by insurers. Medical jargon and buzzwords fill articles and proposals on ways to improve the state of health care in the United States. In these numerous recommendations, the methods with which physicians and hospitals are paid have become a hot button debate. Most medical opinion…

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