Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Five Stages of Grief.

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The AP story on the death of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross reminds me of a poem that we read in Law, Literature & Medicine , "The Five Stag...
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Kübler-Ross dies.

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the path-breaking psychiatrist who wrote On Death and Dying (1969) and whose "fve stages of grief" is tau...
Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Nonprofit hospitals' billing practices examined.

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There's a good article by Roger Yu in this morning's Dallas Morning News (requires free subscription) that gets into more of the d...
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Nonprofit hospitals in Woe-town (USA Today)

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An article in today's USA Today ("Scales tipping against tax-exempt hospitals") provides a laundry-list of legal challenges ...
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Monday, August 23, 2004

Bush's health plan doesn't produce claimed results.

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And Kerry's will almost undoubtedly cost more -- as much as $300 billion more -- that his campaign's estimate of $653 billion over 1...
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Sunday, August 22, 2004

GPO's receive subpoenas from Dallas' U.S. Attorney.

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This is going to be huge. Novation, one of the largest group purchasing organizations (GPO's) in the country ($20 billion a year in s...
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Medicare reform hits insurers' opposition.

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The biggest reform package to amend Medicare since its inception in 1965 (passed last fall) is famously unpopular with seniors (at least the...
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First-ever HIPAA conviction.

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I'm not sure we needed HIPAA in order to prosecute the conduct described in this press release, but that's the statute that was use...

DHHS/Health Information Technology: GAO Briefing

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The Government Accountability Office ( GAO ) has published a good summary of the efforts of the Department of Health and Human Services ( DH...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Illegal immigrants and emergency care.

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As previously mentioned here , CMS has announced its plan to implement a provision of the Medicare reform law that is intended to provide so...

More on stem cells.

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If you thought I was too tough on Tommy Thompson's political news release on stem cells earlier this week (see below), here are some exc...
Sunday, August 08, 2004

Stem cells.

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In an apparent attempt to close the "stem cell gap" between Democrats and Republicans, skillfully highlighted by Ron Reagan at the...
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Thursday, August 05, 2004

Nonprofit class actions: 1st settlement announced.

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Modern Healthcare is reporting that "[s]ix-hospital North Mississippi Health Services, Tupelo, reached an agreement with a Mississippi...
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Abortion and deceptive trade practices.

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It's a somewhat unusual combination, but a federal judge in New Orleans enjoined a local man from a variety of deceptive trade practice...
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004

Indigent care woes.

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The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has an article in today's paper about cutbacks by Aurora Sinai, a downtown hospital that serves a mostl...
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Reproductive rights update.

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There are two items of note in today's news roundup: The Department of Justice has appealed their trial-court loss in San Francisco in...
Monday, August 02, 2004

Uncompensated care and undocumented immigrants.

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Two developments in the past couple of weeks provide enduring lessons in the politics of health care for undocumented immigrants. On July...
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Maternal-fetal conflict, Texas style.

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As reported in an article by Mary Alice Robbins in the Aug. 2 issue of Texas Lawyer , the Potter County DA is prosecuting a woman whose new...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Medical error: does it kill 195,000 annually?

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When the IOM study, To Err Is Human (report brief), came out in 1999, it caused an uproar with its estimate that as many as 95,000 America...
Monday, July 26, 2004

Health care reform redux.

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Tonight's Democratic National Convention kick-off will be punctuated by a lot of applause lines.  One of the biggest will be for health ...
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