“[Maintenance of Certification] is different. It is credentialization, not education. The tests don’t mirror real-world scenarios. They provide no educational value.”
The rise of retail clinics and urgent care centers has led to patients being less reliant on primary care physicians (PCP) for their health needs. According to an analysis by the Health Care Cost Institute, from 2012 to 2016 office visits to PCPs declined 18%.
Featuring a handful of inpatient beds and a narrow selection of community-tailored services, microhospitals are seeking to revolutionize care delivery in cities across the country. These pint-sized purveyors of targeted interventions have a two-fold appeal: they present healthcare institutions...
“Anything that cuts through Medicaid’s tangled web of red tape is good for Texas physicians and good for our patients … The centralized credentialing organization should cut away a big knot of Medicaid hassles.”
A poll of more than 350 physicians found that many of them provided patients with some lifestyle change recommendations to reduce the risk for disease but didn’t believe patients actually followed their advice.
