Your primary care provider is more than just your annual stop for routine checkups. They're also the central hub for coordinating your health care, from specialist visits to follow-up testing ...

Integrity Medicine, 715 Medical Center Drive Suite 200, has been doing things a little differently for years, ditching the health insurance model in 2017 in favor of "Direct Primary Care." Patients ...

Your primary care doctor refers you to see a specialist. You get a name -- or, ideally, multiple names -- of doctors recommended to you. Understandably, you assume these are the best possible doctors ...

Purpose: To examine referral source to cancer genetic services; communication of results of genetic evaluation to clinicians; role of clinicians in postcounseling management; and use of alternative ...

In response to repeated calls for an integrated and coordinated emergency and trauma care system in the U.S., University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists and UPMC physicians rose to the ...

According to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), self-referring urologists dramatically increased their usage of a more expensive, but not necessarily more effective, radiation ...

Referral management systems are holding up urgent referrals and preventing patients undergoing investigations within recommended time limits, according to a study at one acute trust. The audit by a ...

If you didn’t document it, it didn’t happen. How many times have we all heard those words? Today, I would like for us all to consider not merely the importance of documenting daily skilled care but ...

Doctors may be more accepting of certain complementary and alternative medicine therapies, such as yoga, meditation and deep breathing, than they have been in the past, a new study suggests. The ...