Long & Winding Road to Full Marijuana Legalization
A decade after recreational dispensaries opened, will cannabis finally get a get-out-of-jail-free card to full legalization?
SCOTUS Declines to Break Logjam Over ADA Website Compliance
Is there a risk for your practice if your website is not ADA compliant? We pass along the latest news and break the topic down for you.
Medicare Advantage lands in eye of storm over lawsuits, reform, complaints
The highly popular Medicare Advantage (MA) insurance program takes center stage as class action lawsuits over use of artificial intelligence combines with uproars over reform plans and sales commissions.
“Constitutional collisions” come back to haunt Dobbs abortion decision
Opposing sides in the abortion controversy are girding for a likely momentous constitutional confrontation despite SCOTUS’s wish for the contrary.
Free Speech Protections Are Colliding With Public Health Concerns
Recent developments have accelerated a free-speech controversy taking center stage ever since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maya Kowalski: Weighing Parental Rights Against a Child’s Best Interests
“Taking Care of May” is a heartbreaking examination of failures by the medical establishment and the judiciary to avoid making a difficult situation worse.
Want More Patients? Be Different. Be an Online Teacher.
Fashion designer Coco Chanel used to say, “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.” Faced with multiple healthcare choices, any consumer looks for differences among providers. But deliberately standing apart from the pack is contrary to the training of doctors. So how does a physician or provider group build a differentiating brand that helps make the choice abundantly clear?
Sick of Facebook Misinformation on Health? Take the FACTS Pledge.
Ron King discusses healthcare misinformation on Facebook & the FACTS pledge – the Facebook Anti-Misinformation Campaign for Truth in Science.
Who Will the No Surprises Act Surprise the Most?
Small medical practices may be the biggest losers in the No Surprises Act; the winners may be big insurers tied to big health systems.
Correlation Between COVID-19 Mortality Rate and Online Reviews of Doctors
Vanguard Communications’ recent research correlates COVID-19 mortality and online reviews of doctors, giving reason to accept patients’ online reviews of doctors as legitimate.