Health Care Reform

Meaningful use incentive payments: What they are and how they impact PAs

February 02, 2012

Physician assistants who work in PA-owned clinics can receive EHR incentives--but what happens when a PA wants to work at a physician-led practice?
 

A health care reading list for the new year

January 10, 2012

The author shares her thoughts about books on health and health care that PAs might want to read in 2012.
 

U.S. Surgeon General's prescription for health care disparities: Dignity

December 22, 2011

In her address to the 40th graduating class of Yale University's Physician Associate Program, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin countered that young graduates and practicing PAs alike can achieve health care equality through dignity.
 

Lawcare

October 18, 2010

I often listen to NPR's "All Things Considered" on my way home after work. One evening there was a story about the decreasing number of public defenders. In some states there is such a shortage that the attorney is actually reading the case while walking down the hall to the courtroom.
 

Pending health care reform bills are addressing costs

December 18, 2009

Editorial: The challenging economics of US health care reform
 

Health costs reform versus health care reform

November 20, 2009

Editorial: The challenging economics of US health care reform
 

The challenging economics of US health care reform

Michael Halasy, MS, PA-C November 05, 2009

The current health care reform bills focus on expanding coverage without adequately addressing out-of-control health care costs.
 

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