Marty Makary's second-anniversary wishlist for Congress includes a new Plausible Mechanism Pathway, lower PDUFA fees, and a permanent rare-disease voucher program. Florida physicians need to be in the room — here's what to do now.
HB 6003 still has no Senate companion, the FRAME loan repayment deadline is April 30, and four other Florida physician stories worth your attention this week.
U.S. physician burnout dropped to 45.2 percent in 2023. The disparity affecting female physicians did not. What Florida physician leaders should do about it.
The conversion factor went up 3.26 percent. The new efficiency adjustment took most of it back. Here is how Florida specialty practices should respond before the 2027 rule cycle opens.
Florida measles reaches 143 cases, FRAME applications open, CMS conversion factor rises, HCA breaks ground on new ED, and DeSantis signs HIV medication funding stopgap.
Burnout frames the problem as individual. Moral injury points to something different: the gap between what physicians trained to do and what they're required to do.
Five bills are moving through the Florida legislature that directly affect how you practice, who you compete with, how you get paid, and which doctors Florida can recruit.









