Monday, January 29, 2007

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Health Care for the 21st Century: a call to action Does anyone know what John Kitzhaber's been up to since he stopped being governor of ...
Monday, January 15, 2007

AHLA's Health Lawyers Weekly (12 Jan 07)

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From the January 12 issue of Health Lawyers Weekly (reprinted with AHLA's permission): Top Stories House Passes Bill Requiring Medicare...
Sunday, January 14, 2007

GAO reports from November

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Last week the Government Accountability Office listed its November 2006 health-related reports: End-Stage Renal Disease: Bundling Medicare...
Saturday, January 13, 2007

Health Affairs' 25 most-read articles of 2006

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Here's an offer that's too good to pass up: Health Affairs’ 25 Most-Read Articles From 2006 To celebrate the start of Health Affairs...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

AHLA's Health Lawyers News (5 January 2007)

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From the January 5 issue of Health Lawyers Weekly (reprinted with AHLA's permission): Top Stories Medicaid Commission Issues Final Repo...
Monday, January 08, 2007

Another angle on middlemen

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As noted here before (and before ), middlemen have the potential to increase the efficiency of the health care system, but they can also be...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

HIPAA privacy rule: Is it time for (re)reform?

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Kaiser's Health Policy Daily has a nice summary of a Wall Street Journal article (link good for 7 days) on HIPAA's privacy loopho...
Monday, January 01, 2007

Krugman touts single-payer system

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This is definitely a dog-bites-man story, but it's a new year, so I suppose it's appropriate that Paul Krugman should start 2007 wit...
Sunday, December 31, 2006

Single-payer system for the US: you heard it here last

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Today's New York Times has an article on the virtually unimpeachable argument in favor of a single-payer health-care financing system ...

CBO and tax-exempt hospitals

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This month the Congressional Budget Office issued two reports on the tax-exempt hospital industry. Both are worth reading, as much for what ...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

Drug wholesaler settles with New York

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New York's AG, Eliot Spitzer, announced on Thursday that his office had reached a settlement with prescription drug behemoth Cardinal H...

Middlemen redux

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Following up on my earlier post about the role of middlemen in health care , yesterday's WSJ had a nice front-page article (link good f...

When will this madness end?

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The FTC put out a press release yesterday that announces a proposed consent decree in the case of "several organizations representing ...

The spine as profit center

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Today there is yet another story from The New York Times about yet another opportunity for entrepreneurial docs (this time, spine surgeons...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

Viaticals -- something was rotten, indeed

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From today's Modern Healthcare "Daily Dose": Florida physician Clark Mitchell pleaded guilty to participating in a securities...

DeBakey's surgery

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It is sometimes said you should be able to teach an entire Bioethics course from the stories that appear in your local daily paper, but it i...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Physicians' "verbal orders": who may authenticate them?

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It probably isn't worth fighting this fight, so I won't, but I have to note in passing that all physicians' orders are verbal or...

Nice news for the antitrust bar

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Worth watching in 2007: Nurses filed a class-action antitrust lawsuit against Detroit-area hospitals and health systems, claiming that they ...

What ever happened to the bird flu pandemic?

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AP ran a story this month ( "Experts Puzzle Over Halt of Bird Flu" ) with a couple of interesting points: Bird flu may not be gone...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Talking about what doctors don't want to talk about

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Death. Today's New York Times has an op-ed by Dr. Pauline Chen on "The Most-Avoided Conversation in Medicine" -- i.e. , the o...