By HANS DUVEFELT, MD AUGUST 27, 2014 – In the forty years since I started medical school, I have worked in socialized medicine, student health, a cash-only practice and a traditional fee for service small group practice. The bulk of my experience has been in a government-sponsored rural […]
Source: The Direct Primary Care Journal & DPCC March 4, 2014 (Washington, D.C.) As part of its continued effort to educate the nation’s policymakers on the value of the new and growing direct primary care (DPC) model, the Direct Primary Care Coalition (DPCC), will hold its Washington, D.C. […]
By Michael Tetreault, Editor-In-Chief February 1, 2015 — I can’t tell you how many times I’ve spoken to a concierge or direct care doctor from a different part of the country that tell me the same story … ‘I had an employee who didn’t believe in my medical […]
By Alicia Cohn August 29, 2013 at 2:27 pm Remember when President Obama said if you like your doctor, you could keep him or her? Americans everywhere are finding out that’s not true. “I have to find a new doctor,” Dallas mom Stacy Wilson tells Heritage. “I’ve been […]
By Jerry Geisel AUGUST 19, 2013 – The Internal Revenue Service has launched a new website where employers can obtain information about the responsibilities they will face under the health care reform law. The website, launched last week, offers numerous links to IRS bulletins and rules that detail […]
By Jamie Dupree With less than eight weeks until open enrollment officially begins for those who need to purchase health insurance through the state exchanges, the coming weeks and months will provide us with a front row seat into how ready the Obama Administration really is for the […]
By Dinah Wisenberg Brin August 7, 2013 – Small businesses with fewer than 50 full-time employees — or the equivalent — as defined by the U.S. Affordable Care Act may wonder what they should do to prepare for employee open enrollment on the new healthcare exchanges this October. If […]
By Caroline Humer NEW YORK (Reuters) Aug 2, 2013 – With the October 1 date for enrollment in the health insurance exchanges being created by Obamacare less than two months away, a war of numbers has been escalating. Health insurance will cost way less. Or it will cost […]
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) issued the following statement in response to the Obama Administration’s decision to delay enforcement of certain provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) until January 2015: JULY 3, 2013 – “In the midst of a multi-million dollar […]
David Jackson, USA TODAY 10:29 a.m. EDT July 3, 2013 – 1. What did the administration do? The Obama administration announced late Tuesday it is delaying for one year a key requirement of its massive health care law: that companies with 50 or more workers must provide affordable […]