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As President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts works its way through Congress, physicians and parents in the commonwealth are sounding the alarm for the potential effects it could have on Medicaid. Read more at Spectrum News 1 – Kentucky

“There’s only so much burden one doctor, one man, one woman, can take on,” says Dr. Keith Kellum, Chief Medical Officer at Baton Rouge General Hospital. Read More at WAFB-TV

Paul Berggreen, MD, is a gastroenterologist and president and board chair of the American Independent Medical Practice Association (AIMPA). He discusses recent findings about the current state of physicians in private practice as outlined in the Policy Research Perspectives paper, “Physician Practice Characteristics in 2024: Private Practices Account for Less Than Half of Physicians in

On the front lines of health care, parts of the year 2021 were “bananas.” That’s one of the ways Wilmington-based physician Umar Bowers describes the hectic nature of that time, a period when the Omicron variant of global pandemic culprit COVID-19 swept through the U.S. Read More at WilmingtonBiz

At its annual meeting in Chicago this week, the American Medical Association warned against the corporate practice of medicine in its many forms, advising doctors to protect their autonomy and authority when taking corporate relationships. Read more on Crain’s Chicago Business

Many New Yorkers are paying more for checkups, sick visits and outpatient procedures at their longtime family doctor’s office and might not even know it. That’s because hospitals are buying private practices and then charging patients, their health insurance companies and the state Medicare system a much higher hospital rate for the same care. Read

A Spokane physician is raising concerns about the viability of independent medical practices in the Washington. The current American healthcare system is not conducive to maintaining these practices, according to Dr. Raymond Lance at Spokane Urology. “The system is unfortunately not working in a way that facilitates efficient, timely, high quality care delivery,” Dr. Lance

State lawmakers are attempting to revive a century-old legal idea to check private equity’s inroads into medicine, which some legislators and regulators say has reduced competition and worsened patient care. Read the full article on the Wall Street Journal

States’ fight to clamp down on private equity deals in healthcare isn’t over, despite recent setbacks. Proposed legislation in states including California, Connecticut and Minnesota fell flat last year, raising questions about future oversight efforts affecting private equity transactions. Read the full article on Modern Healthcare

Private equity investment in health care is bad, right? Not so fast. There are at least three different types of private equity investment, ownership and management. One type is having a stake in management services organizations that handle business operations for physicians. Read the full article on Medical Economics