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Among Their Peers: Peer Review Can Prove Tricky for Rural Surgeons
Isolation—it's a feeling rural physicians are used to. It especially comes to the forefront when organizing a peer-review panel and country doctors are reminded that their peers are few and far between.
For surgeons in particular, this difficulty is heightened because in many cases the only peers nearby are either practice partners or direct competitors. Traditionally, rural surgical peer-review panels have often included nonsurgical local physicians, distant surgeons not familiar with the limitations of the rural setting or expensive third parties.
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Source: ModernHealthcare.com
AI Meets Medicare: Inside CMS’s WISeR Model With Sanjay Doddamani, MD, MBA, Part 2
August 5th 2025In this second part of his interview with The American Journal of Managed Care®, Sanjay Doddamani, MD, MBA, a former senior advisor to CMMI and founder and CEO of Guidehealth, continues a dialogue on the future of value-based care and the promise—and limits—of AI-enabled innovation, reflecting on challenges like rising Medicare costs and patients’ growing financial burdens.
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Blister Packs May Help Solve Medication Adherence Challenges and Lower Health Care Costs
June 10th 2025Julia Lucaci, PharmD, MS, of Becton, Dickinson and Company, discusses the benefits of blister packaging for chronic medications, advocating for payer incentives to boost medication adherence and improve health outcomes.
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Legal Navigation Services Key to Addressing Disparities in Cancer Care
July 31st 2025A significant number of patients with cancer, caregivers, and health care professionals face significant disparities in legal issues, with the most common needs revolving around health insurance, finances, employment, and disability insurance.
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New Blueprint Guides Patient-Centered Research for More Equitable Health Care
July 17th 2025The new Blueprint for Patient-Centered Value Research offers a roadmap for embedding patient voices throughout every stage of the research journey to foster more equitable, transparent, and responsive health care systems.
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AI Meets Medicare: Inside CMS’ WISeR Model With Sanjay Doddamani, MD, MBA
July 17th 2025Sanjay Doddamani, MD, MBA, a former senior advisor to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and internist and cardiologist by training, explains how the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model hopes to work, and addresses concerns about delays and denials from revamped prior authorization processes.
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