Home hospital care recipients who receive remote physician visits have similar safety risks and self-reported patient experiences as their peers who receive in-person physician visits, according to a ...

The medical practice of Roberta Miller, MD, is reminiscent of the patient-physician relationship of decades past. Instead of asking patients to come to her office for medical care, she has put 250,000 ...

Home visit companies pushed nurses to run screening tests and add diagnoses during patient visits, which added up to about $15 billion in extra pay from Medicare Advantage between 2019 to 2021, The ...

Patients with complex needs, including those with multiple chronic conditions, functional limitations, or homebound status, often face major challenges in accessing care. Home-based primary care, the ...

Last week Boston-based American Well made its telehealth service available as a direct-to-consumer offering. Now anyone with a camera-equipped smartphone, tablet, or computer can conduct a video visit ...

Here are 7 interesting statistics and facts about office-based physician visits in 2004 broken down by the eight most common specialty types of office-based physician specialties, as gathered by the ...

A major new study suggests that Medicare beneficiaries with dementia receive better care when treated by clinicians who specialize in nursing home practice — meaning they provide at least 80% of their ...

Our hospital employs many nurse practitioners to assist physicians and surgeons. If a nurse practitioner conducts a follow-up visit and the physician also sees the patient, can the physician bill for ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Doctors are only required to visit new residents in skilled nursing facilities within 30 days of admission, and only twice within 90 days, according to federal rules sent to CBS 6 by ...

A multidisciplinary approach and symptom management are both vital components of home care to provide continuity of care after cardiac surgery because they decrease symptoms and readmissions to the ...

"Current concerns over a physician mental health crisis may not reflect a new crisis but rather highlight a longstanding pattern of adverse physician mental health." HealthDay News — Mental health and ...

Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) represent a growing share of the health care workforce, but much of the care they provide cannot be observed in claims data because of indirect ...