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By understanding three indices and metrics

Three Financial Metrics Can Improve Practice Performance

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Understanding collection rate, accounts receivable, A/R aging helps improve practice performance
A council on health care spending and value has been established by the journal Health Affairs.

Health Affairs Announces Launch of New Three-Year Initiative

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Council on Health Care Spending and Value will be co-chaired by William Frist and Margaret Hamburg
There are large coverage gaps in short-term health plans that were approved Wednesday by the Trump administration

New Short-Term Health Plans Have Large Coverage Gaps

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Plans don't have to cover existing medical conditions, provide limited benefits
Vaccine refusals and delays

New York City 2013 Measles Outbreak Proved Costly

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Prompt recognition, rapid airborne isolation of suspected cases may slow exposures in future
Positron emission tomographic imaging can directly measure synaptic loss with Alzheimer's disease

PET Imaging Can Measure Synaptic Loss From Alzheimer’s

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Team found SV2A-specific binding correlated with memory
The American Medical Association opposes policies that enable racial housing segregation

AMA Calls for Alleviating Racial Housing Segregation

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Association says racial housing segregation contributes to health disparities
Obesity is associated with worse outcomes in skilled nursing facility residents receiving post-acute care for hip fracture

Obesity Worsens Skilled Nursing Facility Outcomes After Hip Fx

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Findings among Medicare beneficiaries receiving post-acute care for hip fracture
Electronic cigarette use is most common among current smokers

E-Cigarettes Don’t Seem to Aid Smoking Cessation Efforts

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Dual users had the highest prevalence of respiratory symptoms
The C-509T allele in the promoter region of transforming growth factor β is associated with radiation-induced breast fibrosis risk among patients with early-stage breast cancer

TGFB1 Mutation Ups Radiation-Induced Breast Fibrosis Risk

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C-509T allele and postoperative cosmetic surgery significantly linked to breast fibrosis risk
Uniform application of gestational diabetes mellitus diagnostic thresholds may not be appropriate in populations across the world

Single Threshold May Not Be Feasible for Gestational Diabetes

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Diagnostic thresholds should be adapted using local populations, authors say