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The Search for the Elusive Elixir of Life
By TOM EMERICK Here’s the executive summary: Most disease and health spending is age-related. As we age we get infirmities ranging from dementia to cancer to vascular disease. Nothing can prevent aging. Period. For millennia mankind has been been on a futile search to prevent aging. Search for the Elusive Elixir of Life For 3500 or more years mankind has been searching for the mythological Elixir of Life, the fountain of youth, the philosophers stone, pool of nectar, etc, that will defeat aging and extend life, if not achieve immortality. According to Wiki, “The elixir of life, also known as the elixir of immortality a...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Tom Emerick Source Type: blogs

Supplemental Benefits Under Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage has grown rapidly since the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, and now covers 17 million or 33 percent of the 54 million Medicare beneficiaries — up from 13 percent a decade ago. This option allows seniors and the disabled to receive their Medicare benefits from a choice of private health care plans, instead of a single benefit structure managed directly by the federal government through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Much has been written about the relative merits of Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Fee-For-Service from the standpoint of efficiency and care coordination, b...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Christopher Pope Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Insurance and Coverage Medicare Payment Policy CMS fee-for-service Medicare Advantage Medicare Modernization Act Source Type: blogs

Assuring a Future for the SENS Research Foundation
The SENS Research Foundation will be seven years old this year. It is one of the very few organizations to aggressively pursue a campaign of research and advocacy aimed at bringing an end to aging and age-related disease, and one of perhaps only two or three at most that focus on rejuvenation research, an approach to the treatment of aging based on repair of the known forms of cell and tissue damage that cause aging. The SENS rejuvenation research project has been very successful over the course of its lifespan to date, moving from nothing more than a vision in the early 2000s to today's network of allied researchers, rese...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 17, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs

Data Thinking In Health Care
By LEONARD D’AVOLIO Clinicians have been on the receiving end of some pretty terrible practices when it comes to information technology.  Instead of informed and shared decision making, clinicians experience an assault of mandates, metrics, buzzwords, and acronyms without clear explanation or expectations.  Not surprisingly, the pages of THCB and beyond contain frustrated denunciations of EMRs, dares for Dr. Watson to replace them, and dismissals of “big data.”  This whole “technologists are from mars, clinicians are from venus” vibe is understandable, but it isn’t productive. Data is the building block ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Paying Providers For Value: The Path Forward
The release of the Alternative Payment Model (APM) Framework White Paper earlier this week is an important milestone in the progress of the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) toward its goal: driving new and innovative health care payment models that promise to improve the quality and value of health care. The White Paper was developed over the course of several months by the LAN’s Alternative Payment Model Framework and Progress Tracking (APM FPT) Work Group and its Guiding Committee (GC), representing a wide range of private payers, large employers, providers, patients, consumer groups, and state...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 14, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Samuel Nussbaum, Mark McClellan, Mark D. Smith and Patrick H. Conway Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Health Professionals Payment Policy Population Health Public Health Quality ACOs Alternative Payment Models patient-centered care patient-centered medical homes Source Type: blogs

Reading between the lines: results of tobacco control leads in local authorities in England
In this report tobacco control experts from 126 local authorities across England have been asked about their stop smoking services, their budgets and how well their services were integrating since moving to local government in 2013. The report finds that in two out of five areas funding is being cut back. In addition half of all services are being reconfigured or recommissioned indicating a high level of change across the country. Report Cancer Research UK - press release
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 13, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs

Petitioning the German Government to Fund Longevity Science
The German parliament has a formal petition system that does actually seem to result in dialog with politicians, unlike the comparable setup in the US that is for show and little else. This is one of many examples showing why single issue political parties are more of a viable approach to advocacy in European countries, and why you see more of that type of initiative in Europe. The German parliament started using an internet version of their petition system some years ago, and here is an example of the longevity science advocates of the German Party for Health Research supporting a petition to increase funding for research...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 24, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

The Little Agency That Could
By LEAH BINDER In the children’s book The Little Engine That Could, a little blue engine hauls an improbably large trainload of toys and candy over a mountain while chanting, “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.” The Labor Department named this classic among the 100 books that shaped work in America. There’s a federal health agency in Washington that might be called the “Little Agency That Could”: the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (acronym “AHRQ”, pronounced “Arc”) – and it’s shaping the work of healthcare in America. AHRQ’s priority is making the work done in healthcare ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Leah Binder Source Type: blogs

PhRMA Disowns Companies Like Valeant and Turing
CEO of Turing has more on his plate today than ever before, as Martin Shkreli was arrested for securities violations. Recently, PhRMA CEO and President, Stephen J. Ubi, wrote an editorial for The Hill's Congress Blog, where he once again reiterated that companies like Turing and Valeant do not represent the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. Ubi opened his op-ed by stating that PhRMA actually welcomes the conversation that is starting to develop over drug pricing, because he believes "that the longer and deeper the discussion goes, the better lawmakers and the general public will understand the true, profound value these...
Source: Policy and Medicine - December 18, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

The Foster Foundation Makes a Year-End $50,000 SENS Rejuvenation Research Fundraising Challenge
It has been a great year for SENS rejuvenation biotechnology, both for funding and for results delivered by ongoing research programs. The 2015 fundraising continues apace, with yet another organization taking up the baton to offer a matching fund. Following on from our successful $250,000 Fight Aging! 2015 fundraiser to support the work of the SENS Research Foundation, the Foster Foundation has announced a matching fund of their own. They have put up a $50,000 fund to match all donations to the SENS Research Foundation made between now and the end of the year, just two weeks away. From the latest SENS Research Foundation ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 16, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs

Tackling Rising Pharmaceutical Prices: 50 Shades of Gray
By SUSAN DENTZER Global New Active Substances (NAS) Available Since 1996 Here’s the problem with high and rising pharmaceutical prices:  It’s not just one problem, but many.  Addressing them will require a range of solutions – many of them difficult to execute, and possibly tough medicine to swallow. These were key takeaways from the recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Pharmaceutical Forum,which I moderated.  A broad group of stakeholders participated, including patients, consumer groups, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacy benefits managers, insurers and others.  The key issues: Obtaining th...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Susan Dentzer Source Type: blogs

‘Growth Clouds’ On The Horizon For Health Spending?
I was honored to work with the National Health Expenditures (NHE) Team in the CMS Office of the Actuary throughout 1995-2012, and I am honored again to have the opportunity to provide some thoughts on long-range spending trends in the U.S. Many health policy experts have referred to these accounts as the “gold standard” for comprehensive and authoritative information about the cost of health care in the United States, and the NHE Team’s articles on both the historical and projected NHE accounts routinely appear at the top of Health Affairs’ “most frequently read” list. The current focus on the long history of t...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 23, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Richard Foster Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Health Professionals Hospitals Medicaid and CHIP Medicare Payment Policy Aging Cadillac tax Nurses PCORI physician assistants Physicians States Source Type: blogs

The End of the NHS?
By SAURABH JHA, MD Britain’s health secretary wants to uncharm his way to a revolution. To galvanize support for a seven-day National Health Service (NHS), which the NHS was before Jeremy Hunt’s radical plans, and still is, he asserted that thousands die because there is a shortage of senior doctors during weekends. This is an expedient interpretation of a study which showed that mortality was higher in patients admitted on weekends. Hunt ignored the fact that patients admitted on Friday night are actually sicker than those admitted on Wednesday morning. When logos failed, and after briefly dabbling with pathos, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs

Healthcare.gov Improvements And New Investigative Reports (Updated)
This report is beyond the scope of this blog.
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 23, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Costs and Spending Following the ACA Medicaid and CHIP ACA Marketplace budget reconciliation insurance fraud open enrollment Prevention Preventive Services Mandate social security Source Type: blogs

Meet Woman to Watch: Nancy-Ann DeParle, JD
If high expectations at a young age are indeed something of a curse and a burden, Nancy-Ann DeParle would have had every reason to crumble before her career was well underway.  As an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee, she was elected student body president and named by a national magazine as one of the nation’s top ten college women.  Then, in 1994, TIME Magazine included DeParle, then a graduate of Harvard Law and a Rhodes Scholar, as one of “America’s Top 50 Most Promising Leaders Under 40.” This is not a story, though, of someone sinking under the weight of publicized promise and potential.  To the...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Health Reform Source Type: blogs