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Med_Policy: Will "Global Payments" Help or Hurt Patient Care?
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Dec 1, 2010. Will "Global Payments" Help or Hurt Patient Care? The mid-term elections are over; the 2011 legislative session is on the doorstep; and the policy wonks and MA political junkies are salivating in anticipation of possible legislation on payment reform - the final frontier in health care reform. Countless hours have been spent in ballrooms discussing the nuances, implications and nitty-gritty of payment reform, and this week was no different. The. Best Quote from the Article. Hooked: Ethics, M...
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Med_Policy: June 2010
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Jun 29, 2010. Berwick to Head CMS . Not Necessarily. Just a quick follow-up post on the question of who will lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). A previous. Outlined some of the controversy that nominee Donald Berwick from. Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Has sparked. Apparently, his provocative statements have denied him membership in the "unanimous consent" category. Berwick not on list of soon-to-be approved nominees. 06/21/10 07:26 PM ET. Source: http:/ thehill.com/bl...
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Med_Policy: October 2010
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Oct 30, 2010. Put Doctors on Salary, Part 2. Generated some consternation among several readers (for good reason). Here's a (somewhat) related. Independent practices earn more than their hospital owned counterparts. No wonder policy wonks, more likely to be from academia and academic hospitals, suggest everyone should be on salary: They can better control costs (aka your income) and preserve critical services (aka their income). There's more money in independent practices.sort o. Everyone talks about how...
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Med_Policy: Cartoons Debate Profits in Health Care & MLR
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Jan 18, 2011. Cartoons Debate Profits in Health Care and MLR. A very amusing animation about medical loss ratio (MLR), otherwise known as the amount of money insurers should be required to spend on care versus administration. Likely developed by insurers - who else would be spending time animating a debate about such esoteric issues - nevertheless, it turns out to be quite amusing. Enter your email address:. A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor. Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma. Musings of a Dinosaur.
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Med_Policy: Payment Reform: One Primary Care Physician's Response
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Dec 2, 2010. Payment Reform: One Primary Care Physician's Response. On the Boston Globe's coverage of payment reform generated a number of responses, but one seemed to capture the sentiments most accurately. With permission of the author, here it is for your consideration:. Let the hospital executives, insurance executives, the office of HHS, professors of health policy, patient advocacy groups and anyone else that feels empowered to infringe upon my rights as a small business owner find someone else to ...
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Med_Policy: September 2011
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Sep 22, 2011. Generic Manufacturers: The Saviors. Just saw this pop up on my blog reader and couldn't resist having a little fun and making a few edits. GPhA: Generic drugs will save $931B over 10 years. The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) is again pointing to the cost-savings offered by. Medications, developed and brought to market by innovator companies, after patents expire. The report also points out that many. New generics have entered. Stealing of intellectual property. Interesting timing...
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Med_Policy: Mass Medical Society: Protecting Physicians / Patients?
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Dec 6, 2010. Mass Medical Society: Protecting Physicians / Patients? Here's a 3-minute clip from of Mass Medical Society President Alice Coombs, MD, discussing their position on payment reform in MA. The Boston Herald. Covered the topic today, which the CommonHealth Blog. Is MMS doing enough to protect MA physicians? Is MMS doing enough to protect patient care in MA? Enter your email address:. A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor. Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma. John Goodman's Health Policy Blog.
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Med_Policy: Physician-Industry Relationships Debated on AC360
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Nov 24, 2010. Physician-Industry Relationships Debated on AC360. Here's an excerpt of an exchange between a reporter from ProPublica (of recent repute for spearheading the initiative to consolidate data on payments to physicians), a former pharmaceutical sales representative who became a whistle-blower and Dr. Tom Stossel from Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital. Interesting exchange . be sure to vote after viewing the video! Who won the debate? Enter your email address:.
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Med_Policy: Put Doctors on Salary, Part 2
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Oct 30, 2010. Put Doctors on Salary, Part 2. Generated some consternation among several readers (for good reason). Here's a (somewhat) related. Independent practices earn more than their hospital owned counterparts. No wonder policy wonks, more likely to be from academia and academic hospitals, suggest everyone should be on salary: They can better control costs (aka your income) and preserve critical services (aka their income). There's more money in independent practices.sort o. Everyone talks about how...
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Med_Policy: January 2011
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Jan 18, 2011. Cartoons Debate Profits in Health Care and MLR. A very amusing animation about medical loss ratio (MLR), otherwise known as the amount of money insurers should be required to spend on care versus administration. Likely developed by insurers - who else would be spending time animating a debate about such esoteric issues - nevertheless, it turns out to be quite amusing. Jan 10, 2011. Journalists Know More About Dealing with Patients (Than You Doctors). December 30, 2010. Given the relatively ...
