Showing posts with label Healthcare Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthcare Economics. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Rising health care costs put focus on illegal immigrants - USATODAY.com

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Juan Perez had stomach pains for a month before deciding to visit a health clinic here that is open Thursday nights so migrant farmworkers ...

Action For Better Healthcare » Finally a roadmap for a coordinated approach to patient care

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released their long anticipated regulations dealing with ten pages of the 2,200-page March 2010...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ)

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The Association of Health Care Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public understanding of healt...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Feds: NH hospital to pay $2.2 million settlement - Boston.com

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center will pay more than $2.2 million to settle charges it improperly billed various federal health programs, ...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Does screening and treating high cholesterol save money? KevinMD.com

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by Richard Young, MD A commenter (I believe a physician) on one of my posts wrote the following: “I can prevent heart attacks and strokes ...

Patients Are Not Consumers - NYTimes.com

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Earlier this week, The Times reported on Congressional backlash against the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a key part of efforts to r...

N.Y. Taxpayers May Pay Big $$$ for Heart Transplant for Convicted Rapist - FoxNews.com

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Taxpayers may pay $800,000 to give a life-saving heart transplant to an upstate rapist whose crime of incest was so "grotesquely crimi...
Friday, April 22, 2011

More senior citizens are dying at home - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com

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By John Dorschner jdorschner@MiamiHerald.com After years of experts and patient...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Home Page - National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities

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Learn About the NPA → The Mission → The Goals → Social Determinants Get Involved → Become a Partner → Find an OMH ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Autism Diagnoses Still More Likely in Richer Neighborhoods - Yahoo! News

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Poor children with autism are less likely than richer kids to have the condition diagnosed, but this disparity has decreased in recent ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Want Medicare To Pay For Home Care? See Your Doctor : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

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Starting next month, seniors getting health care in their homes will have to see a doctor to make sure they actually need the service. Ot...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

How to Find the Best Hospital Near You - US News and World Report

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Some Americans are fortunate enough to live down the street from a world-class hospital. For them, where to go for highly skilled care is c...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Conflicts Of Interest In Guideline Development: A Dirty Little Secret Gets Aired Again | The Health Care Blog

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An Archives of Internal Medicine article ( Conflicts of Interest in Cardiovascular Clinical Practice Guidelines ) is getting a lot of noti...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Most Canadians see health care as top issue: poll - CTV News

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A growing number of Canadians see health care, ahead of the economy, as the top issue facing the country, according to a new poll. The ...

amednews: Model legislation drafted for out-of-network balance billing :: March 29, 2011 ... American Medical News

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A legislative organization calls on hospitals, insurers and physicians to disclose when patients must pay for care. By Emily Berry , ame...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

New Health Insurance Survey: 9 Million Adults Joined Ranks of Uninsured Due to Job Loss in 2010; Few Viable Health Insurance Options Exist for Unemployed - The Commonwealth Fund

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An estimated nine million working-age adults—57 percent of people who had health insurance through a job that was lost—became uninsured in ...

Poll: Americans Are (Still) Confused About Health-Care Overhaul Law - Health Blog - WSJ

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More than half of Americans say they don’t fully understand the health-care overhaul law, according to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Two-thirds of states cut mental healthcare funds: advocacy group | Reuters

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Two-thirds of states cut mental health funding from their general fund budgets over the last two years, according to a report released by a...
Saturday, March 26, 2011

'Dispense As Written' Prescriptions May Add $7.7 Billion To Annual Health Care Costs, Researchers Found

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About 5% of prescriptions submitted by CVS Caremark Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) members in a 30-day period during 2009 included a &qu...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

Slowing health costs requires answering 3 simple questions

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by Donald H. Taylor, Jr., PhD If we ever slow health care cost inflation to a sustainable pace, it will be because we learn how to ask 3 ...