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Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 3rd 2017
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more. This content is...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 2, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Reaching Beyond Delivery System Walls To Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening
Conclusion Screening rates are a product of two factors: offer rates and uptake/completion rates. With our FIT campaign we have made strides in both areas. With tools built into our EHR, we can now identify and offer tests to nearly 100 percent of the eligible population, practically with the touch of a button. At the same time, patient uptake of testing has improved dramatically, despite the fact that FIT screening must be done every year, instead of the five- and ten-year intervals required for sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy, respectively. We believe the increased uptake is a testament to what happens when we “make the ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 24, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Theodore Levin, Joanne Schottinger and Murray Ross Tags: Featured Health Policy Lab Innovations in Care Delivery Organization and Delivery Population Health capitated payment model Colorectal Cancer Screening electronic health record fecal immunochemical test Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Source Type: blogs

Make Trumpcare the First Big Step toward a Free Market in Healthcare
By CHARLES SILVER Say what you will about Obamacare—at least President Obama eventually took ownership of it. When it comes to the American Health Care Act, President Trump isn’t ready to do that. He’s discouraging people from calling it “Trumpcare.” Since Trump normally he puts his name on everything within reach—even the trash can liners at the Trump SoHo Hotel bear his moniker—he must be keeping his distance from the AHCA because he’s ashamed of it. The editors of The New York Times think he should be. They accuse Trump and the rest of the GOP of “Trading Health Care for the Poor for Tax Cuts for the R...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Repeal Replace Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Bringing on-demand rideshare to medical transport. Interview with Veyo ’ s CEO
  Uber and Lyft have transformed (and largely destroyed) the taxi industry. Now startup companies like Veyo are applying similar approaches to the medical transportation field. I interviewed Veyo’s CEO, Josh Komenda to get his take. 1.How is non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) defined? What’s included? How big is it? Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) is a transportation benefit for Medicaid or Medicare members who need to get to and from medical services, but have no means of transportation. NEMT provides eligible patients with trips that are non-emergency in nature, meaning there is no i...
Source: Health Business Blog - March 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Entrepreneurs Patients Podcast Technology medical transportation NEMT rideshare Source Type: blogs

ACA Repeal and the Ethics of Belief
By DAVID INTROCASO An elderly patient presents to a physician with symptoms of pneumonia. The physician ignores accepted medical standards of care and chooses to believe the patient suffers from a cold or flu. The patient dies of pneumonia. What evidence informs our beliefs, or how we arrive at our beliefs, is as important as what they are. In 1877 a Cambridge mathematician and philosopher, William Kingdon Clifford, published an essay titled, “The Ethics of Belief.” 1 In it, Clifford imagined a ship owner “about to send to sea an emigrant ship” that he knew “was old, and not overwell built at the first.” Knowi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Trump Plan To Increase Health Savings Accounts Should Ensure That They Do Not Only Benefit The Wealthy And Healthy
One of the reforms proposed as part of the Trump health platform is to “allow individuals to use Health Savings Accounts (HSAs).” This increased emphasis on HSAs is a clarion call for more understanding about how to make HSAs work so that they are equitable, effective, and efficient. Although HSAs are conceptually appealing and can play an important role in health reforms, current evidence suggests that they primarily benefit the wealthy, the healthy, and the educated. Thus, new approaches will be needed if HSAs are to be used more widely and improve health outcomes for the broader population. Current Use of Health Sav...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 8, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Kathryn Phillips Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Insurance and Coverage Quality health savings accounts high-deductible plans Source Type: blogs

Taking Stock Of Health Reform: Where We ’ve Been, Where We’re Going
Almost from the moment of its inauguration in 2009, the Obama administration has struggled, often against adamant resistance, to enact and implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The 2016 election has brought to power opponents of the ACA who will control the presidency, both houses of Congress, and many state houses and governorships. ACA repeal, or “repeal and replace,” seems to be a very real, indeed likely, possibility. It is important, therefore, to take a sober look at what the ACA has achieved in its nearly six years of existence, and what repeal, or repeal and replacement, might look like. This post will descr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 6, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Medicare ACA replacement Congress Obamacare Republicans Source Type: blogs

An Update on Price / Cost Transparency + A Promising New Service
By STEVEN FINDLAY Transparency for consumers on prices and costs is a bipartisan goal in healthcare.  The good news is progress is afoot.  The bad news: that progress is still painfully slow.  This blog presents a quick status update with discussion of and links to some recent reports and events. The Healthcare Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) and Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) have tracked state healthcare price transparency laws and their implementation for the past four years.  In a July 2016 report they found the following:  on an A to F scale, three states got As (Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire); one go...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 13, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Back to School Shots: How Your Child is Being Programmed
Conclusion Where are the government-based incentives offering prizes to parents who read to their children? Or rewards for parents who provide their children with adequate levels of vitamin D to boost their immune systems, instead of rewarding them with meager incentives for injecting their children with toxins? This article outlines a mere fraction of the publicly and privately sponsored incentive programs in existence designed to pressure parents to vaccinate their children. If vaccines are so safe and effective, why do organizations need to provide toys, gift cards, money, and other prizes to boost vaccination rates in ...
Source: vactruth.com - August 11, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Logical Missy Fluegge Recent Articles Top Picks truth about vaccines vaccine incentives Source Type: blogs

Bundled Payment Web Site Appeals to Self-Pay and HDHP Consumers
Many employers are now providing high deductible heath plans (HDHP) to their employees with lower monthly cost to the companies but with a catch -- the employees need to pay more of the healthcare costs themselves (i.e., the deductible) before the insurance company covers anything. HDHPs have begun to stimulate consumers to shop for lower priced healthcare services. The Dark Daily recently discussed bundled pricing which provides the opportunity for consumers to save money on healthcare (see: More Providers and Payers Use Bundled Pricing to Serve Patients with Hig...
Source: Lab Soft News - July 8, 2016 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Cost of Healthcare Health Insurance Healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Source Type: blogs

Is It Worth Being A Member Of The American Academy Of Pediatrics?
I asked a newly graduated pediatrician if she was going to renew her membership with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her response did not surprise me. She said, “…probably not. I see no point in being a member.” As far as she was concerned, there wasn’t an upside ( or value ) to belong to the Academy. I knew what she meant because I share her feelings. Recently I came across an email that challenged my stance regarding the value the American Academy Of Pediatrics provides to pediatricians. I wanted to share the email just as I read it. Below are the unedited comments from Dr. Suzanne Berman and...
Source: Pediatric Inc - June 7, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: pediatricinc Tags: Leadership AAP American Academy of Pediatrics Christoph Diasio MD Pediatricians SOAPM Suzanne Berman MD Vaccines Source Type: blogs

Volume to Value: it ’ s about the caboose
In his post last week, John Halamka expressed optimism: I left HIMSS this year with great optimism. Vendors, technologies, and incentives are aligned for positive change. 2016 will be a great year. Perhaps we were seeing different sides of HIMSS. Yes. there is a “buzz” around the migration from volume to value. Walking the floor of the exhibit hall, it was hard to avoid companies – old and new – describing their population health / care coordination / analytics tools. Yet I didn’t see very much that was really new – really focused on value. I saw re-configured versions of old stuff. One company has ...
Source: Docnotes - March 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jacobr Tags: Value Source Type: blogs

Why We Know so Little About ACOs: The Managed Care Culture at Work
By KIP SULLIVAN This is the third essay in a three-part series in which I explore the answer to that question. In the first installment  I blamed this problem on the flimsy definition of “ACO.” ACO proponents “defined” the ACO in terms of their hopes for it, not in terms of the mechanisms ACOs would use to accomplish those hopes. In the second installment  I reviewed a paper published by the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) to document my statement that we have no useful information on ACOs and to illustrate the quandary the hope-based “definition” of “ACO” creates for researchers. I criticized t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: OP-ED Source Type: blogs

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