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OPINION POLL
SHOULD THE NEW rules affecting number of consecutive hours residents can work be applied to all physicians?
Poll Results
appropriate than fast-and-hard rules when it comes to practicing physicians.
47% 35%
18% Yes. Long shifts open the door for errors and place patients in jeopardy. No. Patients need continuity of treat-
ment, so physicians need to be available at all times, regardless of shift length.
Maybe. Guidelines might be more PEER PERSPECTIVE
Medical Claims Payments "About 23% of claims are paid at a rate of zero … for a number of reasons, but that means that the physician practice has to sort out those reasons, resubmit those claims, fi nd out why they were denied; and if we had a fair and transparent process, we wouldn't have to be spending health care resources tracking payments that are owed to the physicians who perform the services." — Barbara McAneny, M.D., American Medical Association's Board of Trustees
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