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
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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