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Health News From KHN- Sebelius At Georgetown Calls For 'Conversation and Compromise' May 19, 2012
- GOP Stakeholders Have Different Views For Health Law Strategies May 18, 2012
- As Presidential Campaign Ads Hit The Airwaves, Health Policies Have Big Role May 18, 2012
- AMA: FTC Decision On Who Can Whiten Teeth Could Change Medical Practice Regulation May 18, 2012
- Mo. Legislators Reportedly Reach Compromise On Abortion Coverage Bill May 18, 2012
- Mass. Senate Passes Health Care Cost Measure With Eye On Saving $150B May 18, 2012
- Legislatures Confront Coverage Issues, Cuts To Health Programs May 18, 2012
- Despite Contraception Controversy, Sebeilus To Speak Today At Georgetown May 18, 2012
- FDA Gives Patients Less-Expensive Option, Approves First Generic Versions Of Plavix May 18, 2012
- Geithner Pushes Back Against GOP Calls For Long-Term Cuts To Medicare, Social Security May 18, 2012
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Author Archives: Brian Klepper
Care & Cost Going Forward
Brian Klepper On May 13th, I announced that I would merge C&C into The Doctor Weighs In, a process that I have already begun in earnest. I meant that I would not longer actively aggregate and re-post great health care … Continue reading
Medicare Physician Payment: The RUC’s Hollow Victory
Brian Klepper Posted 5/18/12 on The Health Affairs Blog On May 9th, William Nickerson, Senior Judge in the Southern Maryland Federal District Court, issued a 15 page ruling against the six Augusta, GA primary care physician plaintiffs who challenged HHS’ and CMS’ … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Brian Klepper, Health Care Cost, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics
Tagged AMA, Brian Klepper, RUC, RUC Lawsuit, William Nickerson
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Care & Cost Merges Into The Doctor Weighs In
Brian Klepper When I began Care & Cost in December of 2010, the idea was to aggregate consistently good health care writing, and to moderate the comments to ensure a courteously professional exchange on the site. It has been a … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Klepper, Care & Cost, RUC, The Doctor Weighs In, WeCare TLC
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The RUC’s Empty Gesture
Brian Klepper and Paul Fischer Posted 05/11/2012 on Medscape Business of Medicine Recently, the leaders of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) lavished praise on the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) for announcing the … Continue reading
Second Opinions: How Should You Choose?
Dov Michaeli Posted 5/9/12 on The Doctor Weighs In I have frequently been asked to render judgment on another doctor’s diagnosis, or treatment plan. Other times I am asked anxiously: “should I get a second opinion”? The implicit assumption in … Continue reading
Posted in Life Sciences, Medical Management, Physicians
Tagged 2nd Opinions, Dov Michaeli, Second Opinions
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Implementing Health Reform: Increasing Medicaid Payments for Primary Care Physicians
Timothy Jost Posted 5/10/12 on the Health Affairs Blog On May 9, 2012, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services released proposed regulations to implement section 1202 of the Health Care and Education Reform Act of 2010. Section 1202 increases Medicaid payments … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care Cost, Medical Management, Physicians, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Reform
Tagged Health Reform, Medicaid, Medicare, Primary Care
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The Maryland Federal District Court Rules Against The Georgia Physicians’ RUC Challenge
The ruling was issued yesterday, and is a disappointing resolution to a very large national problem. I’ll write more about this in the next few days. Here is Judge Nickerson’s decision, for those interested in reading it.
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Patent Pools Pushed To Make Drugs Affordable in Developing World
Merrill Goozner Published 5/9/12 in The Fiscal Times Amid a growing crisis in financing treatments for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the developing world, an arm of the World Health Organization will meet in Geneva later this month to consider … Continue reading
Looking Beyond the Money: Crucial Steps to Getting Vaccines to Children
Lois Privor-Dumm Posted 5/8/12 on Disruptive Women in Health Care Without money, many nations can’t afford to tackle health care issues and introduce the life-saving vaccines that are critical to child survival in the developing world. But even after a … Continue reading
Whatever It Is, It’s Not Insurance
Tom Emerick Posted 5/9/12 on Cracking Health Costs Discussions about covering “pre-existing” health conditions occur frequently among health policy people. One frequent thread is that health insurers should not be allowed to deny coverage to people with pre-existing health condition. … Continue reading
Sue the Patient
Dan Munro Posted 4/27/12 on Forbes States often confer the tax-exempt status on hospitals with the expectation that certainly some services will be extended to the less fortunate with limited capacity to pay. Two of the more litigious hospitals in … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Consumerism, Market Dynamics, Medical Management, Policy/Law/Regulation, Quality
Tagged Charity Care, Dan Munro, EMTALA, Lawsuits, Uncompensated Care
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Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Affordability, Not Cost Growth, Is The Real Policy Challenge
Jeff Goldsmith Posted 5/7/12 on The Health Affairs Blog A recent spate of commentaries on the continuing health spending moderation raise an important policy question: If the cost curve is well and truly bent, why are we investing so much … Continue reading
Posted in Analytics, Benefits, Consumerism, Health Care Cost, Imaging, Innovation, Policy/Law/Regulation, Politics, Supply Chain
Tagged Affordability, Cost Growth, Jeff Goldsmith, Medicare
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Why US Health Costs are Higher Than Anywhere Else in the World
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Health Populi The price of physician services, proliferation of clinical technology and the cost of obesity are the key drivers of higher health spending in the U.S., according to The Commonwealth Fund‘s latest analysis in their Issues of International Health … Continue reading
You Can Unleash This Horsepower!
Paul Levy Posted 5/6/12 on Not Running a Hospital Among the great hospital leaders in America, Jeffrey Thompson, CEO of the Gundersen Lutheran Health System in Wisconsin, stands out for going beyond achieving marvelous results in patient quality and safety. Jeff’s commitment … Continue reading
