Despite Potential for More Money, Doctors Aren’t Uniformly Adopting Medicare Wellness Visits

Medical practices that adopted the annual Medicare “wellness visit” for patients saw increased revenue, and their patients were also likelier to stay with them for any given three-year period, researchers say. But other medical offices, most of which care for the underserved, had lower rates of adopting the practice of the wellness visit – a… Continue reading Despite Potential for More Money, Doctors Aren’t Uniformly Adopting Medicare Wellness Visits

Needed: More Genetic Testing for At-Risk Women

Physicians often fail to recommend genetic testing for breast cancer patients who are at high risk for mutations associated with ovarian and other cancers, according to a large study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and five other U.S. medical centers. Asian-Americans and older women were particularly likely to be “undertested.” Not… Continue reading Needed: More Genetic Testing for At-Risk Women