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How May the Transition to Value-Based Payment Influence Gastroenterology: Threat or Opportunity?
June 2012 (Vol. 10 | No. 6 | Pages 609-611)
Gastroenterology has experienced a surge of innovation and growth over the past decade, with major advances in diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures and in the basic understanding of diseas...
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Parambir S. Dulai,
Elliott S. Fisher,
Richard I. Rothstein
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Full-length article
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609-611
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Can the Humanities Mend Medicine?
May 2012 (Vol. 10 | No. 5 | Pages 472-474)
Dr Howard Spiro passed away on March 11, 2012. He was the founding chief of the Gastroenterology Section at Yale, a position he held from 1955–1982. During that time, he became widely known for his cl...
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Howard Spiro
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Full-length article
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472-474
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Private Practice Management of Hospital Endoscopy/Under Arrangements
April 2012 (Vol. 10 | No. 4 | Pages 377-378)
The world is changing. In 2012 and beyond, physician relationships with hospitals and health care systems will assume greater importance. Over the past 2 decades, with the increase of ambulatory surge...
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Mary Igo
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Full-length article
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377-378
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Addressing the Mind, Body, and Spirit in a Gastrointestinal Practice for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients
March 2012 (Vol. 10 | No. 3 | Pages 244-246)
The past decade has witnessed a growing emphasis on the importance and clinical relevance of incorporating a multidisciplinary approach to address patients' priorities and desires that includes specif...
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Sharon Jedel,
Vered Hankin,
Robin M. Voigt,
Ali Keshavarzian
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Full-length article
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244-246
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What to Do With My Ambulatory Surgery Center
February 2012 (Vol. 10 | No. 2 | Pages 138-141)
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Lawrence R. Kosinski,
Fred Rosenberg,
Kenneth Strople
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Full-length article
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138-141
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Innovation in Health Care: Time for a Gut Check
January 2012 (Vol. 10 | No. 1 | Pages 27-29)
Over the past several decades, advances in science and technology have yielded great strides in our ability to treat major medical conditions such as heart disease and cancer. The genesis of many of t...
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Bijan Salehizadeh
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Full-length article
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27-29
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Activity-Based Costing and Management in a Hospital-Based GI Unit
November 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 11 | Pages 947-949.e1)
Over the last 2 decades, a number of attempts have been made to slow the rise in healthcare costs. Among them were Health Maintenance Organizations, which lowered costs through capitation. In most cas...
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Michael J. Goldberg,
Lawrence Kosinski
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Full-length article
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947-949.e1
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Is It Time to Reassess Colon Cancer Screening Recommendations and Acknowledge Ethnic Disparities?
October 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 10 | Pages 859-861)
It is well documented that African Americans suffer disproportionately higher incidence (68 vs 55 [men], 53 vs 41 [women] per 100,000) and mortality (31 vs 21 [men], 21 vs 14 [women] per 100,000) rate...
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Carla H. Ginsburg
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Full-length article
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859-861
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Gastroenterology in a New Era of Accountability: Part 3. Accountable Care Organizations
September 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 9 | Pages 750-753)
Soaring health care costs. Waning confidence in medicine's effectiveness. Limited access to care. Sound familiar? These present-day concerns are actually not so new; by 1970 an American health care cr...
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Spencer D. Dorn
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Full-length article
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750-753
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Gastroenterology in a New Era of Accountability: Part 2. Developing and Implementing Performance Measures
August 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 8 | Pages 660-664)
Today, gastroenterologists and the organizations within which they work are increasingly being held accountable for the quality and cost of the care they provide. The first part of this series defined...
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Spencer D. Dorn
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Full-length article
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660-664
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Gastroenterology in a New Era of Accountability: Part 1. An Overview of Performance Measurement
July 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 7 | Pages 563-566)
“Trust me, I'm a doctor.” This refrain was likely enough to satisfy patients throughout the “golden age of medicine,” a period during which physicians were relatively unencumbered by regulation, highl...
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Spencer D. Dorn
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Full-length article
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563-566
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Antitrust Risk in Practice Mergers: A Framework for Evaluation
June 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 6 | Pages 481-482)
As physicians consider strategic options to assist in responding to health reform and other market drivers, consolidation with other previously competitive physicians or groups may be considered. If s...
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Mark E. Lutes,
Patricia M. Wagner
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Full-length article
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481-482
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Getting Involved: My Experience With Medicare's Advisory Panel on APC Groups
May 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 5 | Pages 392-394)
Being a physician requires leadership. Whether it is convincing patients to take prescribed treatments or convincing Congress to enact a bill, being a leader is part of the career. The day-to-day work...
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Dawn L. Francis
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Full-length article
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392-394
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How Will Personalized Medicine Impact the Practice of Gastroenterology?
April 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 4 | Pages 305-307)
In exchange for a drop of saliva and as little as $299, consumers can access predictions about their future health based on DNA sequence variations occurring throughout their genome. Tantalizing. But ...
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Linda A. Lee
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Full-length article
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305-307
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Why Innovation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Drug Development Will Impact Your Practice
March 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 3 | Pages 211-213)
Drug development in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is likely to impact clinical practice in gastroenterology in the near term and beyond. Specific trends in drug development that are relevant and wi...
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William J. Sandborn
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Full-length article
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211-213
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Meeting the Gastrointestinal Needs of a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Patient Population
February 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 2 | Pages 106-109)
The area of demographic-specific medicine is currently a burgeoning area of research. The 2010 United States Census demonstrates that the United States is composed of an increasingly diverse populatio...
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Evelyn Marquez,
Samir Gupta,
Byron Cryer
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Full-length article
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106-109
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How Will Accreditation of Your Ambulatory Endoscopy Center Be an Essential Component of Showing Value-Based Health Care?
January 2011 (Vol. 9 | No. 1 | Pages 21-23)
That health care in the United States is in a state of crisis has become undeniable. Participants at all levels of the system are fed up with the status quo. Meanwhile, health care has grown into a fu...
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Lawrence S. Kim
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Full-length article
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21-23
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Caveats for Marketing Your Gastroenterology Practice
December 2010 (Vol. 8 | No. 12 | Pages 1030-1031)
Why is marketing important? The reality is that your practice can only reach its potential (financially and in other ways) by ensuring a solid marketing effort. However, many gastroenterologists devot...
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Reed B. Hogan,
M. Beth Hogan
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Full-length article
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1030-1031
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Appealing Adverse Coverage Decisions by Insurers: What Gastroenterologists Need to Know
November 2010 (Vol. 8 | No. 11 | Pages 939-940)
In the 5 years since I founded Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, I have read many of letters written by physicians to insurance companies, and I have talked to many of doctors — primarily ga...
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Jennifer C. Jaff
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Full-length article
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939-940
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Embracing New Technology in the Gastroenterology Practice
October 2010 (Vol. 8 | No. 10 | Pages 848-850)
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. Stewart Brand
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Subhas Banerjee,
Pankaj Jay Pasricha
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Full-length article
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848-850
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