First-Year Medical Student Spurs Massachusetts to Act on SIFs

3/6/2019

of the studies that I could find showed any deaths in a SIF. There were also increased rates of referral …

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Vital Signs Feb/March 2019 (pdf)

3/6/2019

, and all of them showed reduction in opioid overdose deaths. None of the studies that I could find showed …

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MMS Letter Urging CMS to Include Prior Authorization Language in its 2020 Call Letter to Medicare Advantage Plans

3/5/2019

protocols for physician administered drugs covered under Medicare Part B this year. We find the growing …. 3 HHS OIG, Medicare Advantage Appeal Outcomes and Audit Findings Raise Concerns About Service …

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Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society

2/26/2019

to recover and return to the practice of medicine. Furthermore, resident physicians who find …

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MMS Comments on Strategy for Reducing Regulatory and Administrative Burden

2/22/2019

, finds that 78% of physicians’ experience feelings of professional burnout at least sometimes, a dramatic … with HHS, CMS and ONC to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens while at the same time finding …, physicians will once again find themselves being penalized for their failure to comply with a mandate …

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MMS_PatientReportedOutcomeMeasures

2/20/2019

are not completely attributable to the physician’s performance alone, providers find it hard to reconcile …

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BCG Therapy (pdf)

2/20/2019

clinical trial finds that in longstanding T1D, vaccination with two doses of intradermal BCG achieved …. It summarizes our mechanistic findings from full-genome mRNA sequencing of separated cell populations as well … glycolysis. These findings support of the Hygiene Hypothesis and show the magnitude of the restoration …

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The Beneficial Effects of the 100-Year-Old BCG Vaccine in Type 1 Diabetes - 2018 Annual Oration

2/20/2019

4294982790 BCG is a live attenuated bacterial vaccine that contains the avirulent tuberculosis strain Mycobacterium bovis.  BCG has historically been given to protect against tuberculosis and, since its introduction in 1921, has been the most widely administered vaccine in the history of medicine.  BCG is consid

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Committee on Oral Health Meeting Minutes - February 20, 2019

2/20/2019

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Episode 18: Managing Unrealistic Expectations

2/11/2019

4294982738 Course Overview Every practicing physician has had the experience of feeling powerless in the face of patient expectations that come across as overblown or unrealistic. Addiction psychiatrist Mark Green, MD, shares with Drs. Curious and Schwab that an effective strategy for managing such expectatio

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