Saturday, September 27, 2008

Pay for the best care, save money

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Cary Grant is supposed to have said it's cheaper in the long run to buy the best shoes possible -- they will hold up better, last longe...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Insurer to pay $225M settlement in Medicaid coverage-denial suit

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The Kaiser Network has picked up on a report from Reuters that Amerigroup has settled a qui tam whistleblower suit in which it was accuse...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

Pediatric DCD in the news

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Today The Washington Post has an article -- Infant Transplant Procedure Ignites Debate -- that builds on yesterday's AP article about ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

"For better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health . . . "

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How to pick a life partner, 2008-style: "Let's see. . . . Good personality? Check. Kind to small animals and young children? Check....
Thursday, August 07, 2008

U.S. health care reform: can 8 out of 10 Americans be wrong?

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The latest from The Commonwealth Fund is a report based upon a Harris Interactive survey that sought the opinions of a sample of 1,004 adu...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Congresswoman Slams Religious Right's Assault on Science's "Edgier" Side

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Scientific American has an on-line interview with Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, who recently published, "Sex, Science and Stem Cells: I...

New Study Looks at Uninsurance Among Immigrants

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New Study Looks at Uninsurance Among Immigrants [from today's Kaisernetwork.org's Daily Health Policy Report] Although U.S.-born res...

Latest health-related reports from GAO

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Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Have Increased Their Sharing of Health Information, but More Work Remains. GAO-08-954, July 28, 2008 (...

Texas Attorney General: Charitable Hospital Summit

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For those interested in charity care and community benefits in Texas, the Texas Attorney General is hosting a "summit" on Tuesday...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

What it means to be uninsured in America

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The New York Times has an article ( Millions With Chronic Disease Get Little to No Treatment ) today about the most recent Annals of Intern...
Sunday, July 27, 2008

All hospitals have to pull their weight on uncompensated care

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Tim Walters filed this op-ed piece Saturday in the Cleveland Plain Dealer : All hospitals have to pull their weight on uncompensated care . ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

5th Circuit's decision in Poliner is out

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Total win for Presbyterian/THR/ medical-staff docs. HCQIA immunity for money damages held to apply to emergency suspension decisions during...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors’ Fees

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Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors’ Fees That's the headline in this morning's New York Times ' story about health plans (inc...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

Making Malpractice a Criminal Matter

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The Wall Street Journal 's Law Blog has an entry today on a criminal case brought against a physician at the Harvard School of Public H...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

The vaccine-autism debate: a lecture

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From Mary Holland at NYU comes notice of this lecture: THE VACCINE-AUTISM DEBATE:WHY WON'T IT GO AWAY? David Kirby, AuthorEvidence of H...
Saturday, May 31, 2008

Med mal premiums in Mass., 1975-2005

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Marc Rodwin , one of the most innovative and consistently interesting health law scholars around, has published (with others) in the May/Jun...

American College of Physicians: E-Health Recommendations

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The ACP's new report, E-Health and Its Impact on Medical Practice , is presented on their news page . The challenge of moving physician...

Two Versions of End-of-Life Care

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The New York Times had an interesting article Friday ( In New York City, Two Versions of End-of-Life Care ) on variations in end-of-life car...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Cash Before Chemo

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The Wall Street Journal ran a chilling Page One story yesterday: Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough (link may require paid subscriptio...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

PBS Frontline: "Sick Around the World"

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This Tuesday, "Frontline" takes a look at the U.S. health care system by comparing what we have against other countries who manage...