Filtered By:
Management: Medicare
This page shows you your search results in order of date. This is page number 19.
Order by Relevance | Date
Total 795 results found since Jan 2013.
Medicaid: What Happens Now?
With public attention completely focused on the wild effort to reach closure on the private health insurance provisions of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) (H.R. 1628), it was easy to overlook (at least for a moment) the extraordinary nature of its Medicaid changes. Were these provisions to become law, the AHCA would represent the most sweeping federal policy shift since the program’s 1965 enactment.
How The AHCA Would Affect Medicaid
The AHCA would end the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced funding for the adult expansion population. More profoundly, however—and completely disconnected from the AHCA’s “repeal...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 17, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Sara Rosenbaum Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Quality ACA repeal and replace AHCA EPSDT Medicaid block grants Medicaid expansion Medicaid per capita cap medicaid work requirement Source Type: blogs
It ’ s Time to Truly Share the Chemo Decision With Cancer Patients
By MICHAEL MILLENSON
You (or a loved one) has cancer, but the latest round of chemotherapy has unfortunately had only a modest impact. While you’re acutely aware of the “wretchedness of life that becomes worn to the nub by [ chemotherapy’s] adverse effects” you’re also a fighter.
How do you decide whether to continue with chemo?
The answer to that question is both intimately personal and inextricably tied to health policy. Cancer is the leading cause of death among those aged 60 to 79, and it is the second leading cause of death for all Americans. With expenditures on cancer care expected to top $158 bill...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 11, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Chemotherapy Millenson Oncology shared decision making Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 8th 2017
This report captures the state of the research community in a nutshell: progress in the sense that ever more scientists are willing to make the treatment of aging the explicit goal of their research, but, unfortunately, there is still a long way to go in improving the nature of that research. It is still near entirely made up of projects that cannot possibly produce a robust and large impact on human life span. The only course of action likely to extend life by decades in the near future is implementation of the SENS vision for rejuvenation therapies - to repair the molecular damage that causes aging. Everything else on th...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 7, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Genentech Beats FCA Suit, Thanks to Escobar
On Monday, May 1, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit stopped a False Claims Act suit that accused Genentech Inc. of defrauding Medicare by concealing certain side effects of its cancer drug Avastin, stating that the whistleblower did not show that failing to report such safety information was relevant to government reimbursement for medication.
Prior to filing his qui tam suit, The relator, Gerasimos Petratos, a prior global head of health care data analytics for Genentech, allegedly recommended implementing a different database that he believed would more accurately reflect the drug’s side e...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 4, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Heart Disease Risk Factors in Middle Age Predict Remaining Life Expectancy
Researchers have processed data from a long-running study to show that the presence or absence of heart disease risk factors in middle age predicts remaining life expectancy. Those with no risk factors live a somewhat longer, on average. It is interesting to note that only a small portion of the population are free from all risk factors at this stage in life, and that is largely the result of poor lifestyle choices leading to excess fat tissue and vascular decline. In an age of rapid progress in biotechnology, with effective treatments for the causes of aging on the horizon, it makes sense to avoid sabotaging your own heal...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 3, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Health Datapalooza 2017 Day 1: Data Liberation, Sharing, and Analytics
Welcome to Medgadget‘s coverage of Health Datapalooza 2017, an AcademyHealth event, in Washington, DC. The now annual event was launched in 2010 by the Obama administration as a hackathon-style program where attendees were challenged to deve...
Source: Medgadget - May 1, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Managing The Beginning Of The End: Advanced Disease Management And Concurrent Care Under Current Financing
Editor’s Note: This is the second Health Affairs Blog post from the author on End of Life & Serious Illness. His first post “Why Now? Concerns About End-Of-Life Health Care Policy” was published on December 19, 2016.
The Medicare hospice benefit was passed in 1982 as part of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, the same bill that instituted diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) for hospital reimbursement. Since it was passed with a sunset provision, there was only modest growth in the number of beneficiaries until the hospice benefit was made permanent in 1986. Other changes included in the bill h...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 28, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Vincent Mor Tags: Costs and Spending End of Life & Serious Illness Long-term Services and Supports Medicare Organization and Delivery Quality advanced disease management End-of-Life Care Hospice care Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Rethinking The United States ’ Military Health System
During Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (2001 – 2014), the United States’ military health system completely transformed its approach to casualty care, achieving the highest rate of survival from battlefield wounds in the history of warfare. It is one of the most remarkable accomplishments in the history of US medicine.
Ironically, the same health care system that worked miracles “down range” in Iraq and Afghanistan faces mounting criticism at home. How can this be? In part, it is because the military health system has two distinctive missions: support combat and humanitarian assistance missions ove...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 27, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Arthur Kellermann Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Organization and Delivery Population Health Quality American College of Surgeons Department of Veterans Affairs Jonathan Letterman military health care National Defense Authorization Act TRICARE Source Type: blogs
Health Policy ’s Gordian Knot: Rethinking Cost Control
Medical spending has resumed its long-term rise. After several years of deceptive stability in the last, deep recession’s wake, health spending rose by 3.7 percentage points more than general inflation in 2014, then by 5.8 percentage points more in 2015, to a 17.8 percent share of the US economy.
Not only does this spending rise threaten the United States’ fiscal stability and capacity to address other needs; it is undermining the promise of health care for all. To manage rising costs, insurers are hiking premiums, narrowing their networks, and raising deductibles and copayments, making purchase of coverage less appeal...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Gregg Bloche, Neel Sukhatme and John L. Marshall Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Health IT Insurance and Coverage Payment Policy intellectual property patents Research and Development value-based payment Source Type: blogs
The MacArthur Amendment Language, Race In The Federal Exchange, And Risk Adjustment Coefficients
For a number of days negotiations have apparently been underway with respect to an amendment to the Republican American Health Care Act (AHCA) that has been proposed by Congressman Tom MacArthur (R.N.J.) A summary of this amendment became available on April 20, 2017 and was analyzed here. On the evening of April 25, the actual language of the amendment became available.
As described in the summary, the amendment would repeal the enigmatic language included in a March 23, 2017 amendment to the AHCA that would have allowed states, beginning in 2018, to define the essential health benefits for purposes of determining premium ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 26, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Source Type: blogs
Words Matter: The Way Physicians Deliver “Bad News” Can Result in Detrimental Consequences
Delivering medical diagnosis is a sensitive practice that requires deliberate and thought out action. Of course, this isn ’t always the case, and sometimes patients receive bad news in a way that might feel cold and apathetic. The American Journal of Roentgenology recently published areportdocumenting two cases in which patients committed suicide after receiving letters from their physicians detailing “bad news”. The report ultimately determined that doctors should take precautions when delivering an unwanted diagnosis, and that “bad news” is best expressed in person.In the first case, an Israeli man who suffered...
Source: radRounds - April 22, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
How to Select the Best Hospice Care Provider
The website of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization defines hospice care as follows:“Considered to be the model for quality, compassionate care for people facing a life-limiting illness or injury,hospice care involves a team-oriented approach to expert medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient's needs and wishes.Support is provided to the patient's loved ones as well.At the center of hospice and palliative care is the belief that each of us has the right to die pain-free and with dignity, and that our families will receive the necessary support t...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - April 19, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: rtdemarco at gmail.com Tags: alzheimer's awareness alzheimer's care Alzheimer's Dementia help with dementia care hospice Hospice Care memory care memory care facility nursing home searches related to alzheimer's Source Type: blogs
Is There a Way to Lower The Risk of Cancer for Children Undergoing CT Scan?
Children are morevulnerableto radiation than adults. According to research from the University of Melbourne, CT scans can exponentially increase a child ’s rate of developing cancer. In conjunction with the World Congress of Public Health, the university is revising 2013 data that found children who had undergone CT scans had a 24 percent higher risk of developing cancer than those who never went through the machine. The beams of ionizing radiatio n can trigger cellular damage.Study leader John Mathews and his team evaluated Medicare records of10.9 millionAustralians 19 years and younger. They found that most individuals...
Source: radRounds - April 15, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
