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The Morning Flap: February 22, 2013
Sequestration from Wall Street Journal These are my news headlines for February 21st through February 22nd: With Axelrod At NBC News, The Marriage Of Media And Politics Becomes Complete – What’s more, Team Obama has declared it has no intention of dismantling its campaign apparatus post re-election. Put Axelrod in the catbird seat at a news outlet and the “narrative” continues. Combine that with Team Obama’s masterful manipulation of journalists, its command of social media, and an ugly picture emerges of a press indistinguishable from the political establishment.This has happened in banana r...
Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog - February 22, 2013 Category: Dentists Authors: Flap Tags: Pinboard Links The Morning Flap Charles Krauthammer David Axelrod Delicious Links Democrats Gallup GOP Harry Reid Healthcare immigration Karl Rove Media Medicare MSM NBC Nevada Obamacare Online Politics Peggy Noonan Source Type: blogs

Liberty Mutual: A Blow to Health Care Transparency
By CHARLES ORNSTEIN The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow this week to nascent efforts to track the quality and cost of health care, ruling that a 1974 law precludes states from requiring that every health care claim involving their residents be submitted to a massive database. The arguments were arcane, but the effect is clear: We’re a long way off from having a true picture of the country’s health care spending, especially differences in the way hospitals treat patients and doctors practice medicine. It also means that, for the time being at least, we’ll remain heavily reliant on data being released by Medicare, the ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: Featured THCBist Charles Ornstein Source Type: blogs

Misdiagnosis: Obamacare Tried to Fix the Wrong Things and Prescribed the Wrong Treatments
By CHARLES SILVER and DAVID A.HYMAN Today THCB is happy to publish a piece reflecting the learnings from Charles Silver and David Hyman’s forthcoming book Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care, shortly to be published by the libertarian leaning Cato Institute. In subsequent weeks we’ll feature commentary from the right (Michael Cannon) and from the left (Andy Slavitt) about the book and its proposals. For now please give your views in the comments–Matthew Holt There are many reasons why the United States is “the most expensive place in the world to get sick.” In Part 1 of Overcharg...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Economics OP-ED Cato Institute Charles Silver David A. Hyman Obamacare Overcharged Source Type: blogs

In Pursuit Of Hospital Quality: Creating Effective Performance Measures And Transparency In Health Care
When Garrison Keillor of “Prairie Home Companion” fame welcomes his radio audience to Lake Wobegon, his fictional Minnesota town, he describes it as a place where, “all the children are above average.” When one of us or our loved ones goes to a hospital for care, we expect that facility to be “above average” too. Sometimes we are able to choose the hospital where we seek care; sometimes, due to an emergency, we have no choice. Either way, we depend on the professionalism of the hospital and its clinicians to provide high quality care and keep us safe. Reports by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and other researc...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 4, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Charles Kahn Tags: Featured Health Professionals Hospitals Medicare Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Population Health Quality big data Charles Kahn Hospital Care Hospital Quality Alliance IOM Metrics Patient Safety Source Type: blogs

What Kmart ’s Settlement Says About Health Care Fraud
This reportedly violated regulations requiring pharmacies to apply their usual and customary charges when billing government payers. The DOJ claims that “[t]he government’s resolution of this matter illustrates the government’s emphasis on combating health care fraud,” It might more accurately have said that the settlement adds to the mountain of evidence showing that the government cannot control even the most obvious forms of health care fraud, a point we make at length in our forthcoming book, Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care. For one thing, at the very same time government payers were hon...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Charles Silver David Hyman K-Mart Lisinopril Source Type: blogs

Rethinking Medication and Information Technology
Previous articles in this series looked at barriers to taking medication and possible solutions, including special conditions that produce challenges. This final article in the series turns the question on its head. Can patients get better without the medications? Dr. Omar Manejwala, CMO of DarioHealth, goes so far as to use the terms “paternalistic” and “infantilizing” to label claims that people fail to take medication solely out of ignorance or forgetfulness. To all the other factors that hold people back from taking their meds, he adds social and religious factors, concerns about side effects an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC AdhereHealth Bryan Hill Carium Caroline E. Ortiz Charles Lee Cognizant DarioHealth FDB fee-for- Source Type: blogs

Why Bad News Is Not Always Bad
Last month, the cover of BusinessWeek featured an article, How Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes, focused on co-pay charities for Medicare patients. I of course had heard about such co-pay charities before, and even had the opportunity to meet with a representative of one a few years ago, but frankly I had no idea what they did. So when the article came out, outlining the "evils" of this practice, it caught my attention. By catching my attention, it actually saved my elderly parents significant amounts of money. My father and mother are both retired, living on a small pension and Social Secur...
Source: Policy and Medicine - August 4, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs

Our Man in the NQF? - CareFusion Settles Kickback Allegations for $40.1 Million and Government Alleges They Meant to Manipulate National Quality Forum Standards
What appeared to be yet another entry in the march of legal settlements turns out to be more interesting than it first appeared.The Basic Story: Off-Label Marketing  The story was initially briefly reported in the media.  A report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on 9 January, 2014, was perhaps the most complete, CareFusion, a manufacturer of medical and surgical supplies and medical devices, has agreed to settle charges of illegal marketing practices and kickback payments for promoting sales of the company’s surgical preparation solution, Chloraprep.Under the terms of the settlement with Washington, other sta...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 22, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: CareFusion conflicts of interest guidelines institutional conflicts of interest kickbacks legal settlements National Quality Forum pay for performance Source Type: blogs

The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 27, 2022 Edition-----In the UK we have a political farce running with only a day or so to run when you read this, with a new PM (Rishi Sunak) in place..In the US the mid-term elections are coming in a week or so, thus some concern as to where the US is going!In China Xi has his third 5 year term so we all wonder how that will turn out!In OZ we have has a Budget with floods, inflation, data leaks, the threat of recession, Medicare concerns and other issues just rolling on! At least the Budget does not seem to have broken anything!Overall an ‘omnishambles’ as they say!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.afr.com/wo...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Physician Payment Sunshine Act: Bipartisan Congressional Letter Calls for Exemption of Textbooks and Reprints
23 members of the United States House of Representatives sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to voice their disagreement with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) decision to include textbooks and scientifically peer-reviewed medical journals as "transfers of value" reportable under the Physician Payment Sunshine Act. As reported by the Coalition for Healthcare Communication, the letter demonstrates that there is widespread disagreement with the current HHS policy. The signatories state: "The importance of up-to-date, peer-reviewed scientific medical information as the fou...
Source: Policy and Medicine - December 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

The CareFusion/ Dr Denham/ NQF /Leapfrog Goup Case that Would Not Go Away - NQF CEO Outed as Member of Premier Inc Board
The story of the CareFusion/ Dr Denham/ NQF/ Leapfrog Group case refuses to go away, even if it still has not created any echoes in the mainstream media or the medical and health care literature.  Now it appears that the NQF has an even bigger conflict of interest problem than previously reported.  BackgroundAs of our last post on 5 February, 2014, the background was--  The case became public with an apparently routine legal settlement between CareFusion and the US Department of Justice -  The CareFusion settlement for $40.1 million was made in response to allegations that kickbacks were made to pr...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 21, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: boards of directors conflicts of interest group purchasing organizations National Quality Forum Source Type: blogs

Medicare Pays $220 Million a Year for Acthar Without Any Controlled Trials that Prove it Works - While We Have No Money to Develop Ebola Vaccines or Treatment?
Introduction - No Money for Ebola Vaccine DevelopmentWhile a new Ebola epidemic continues in Africa, people in developed countries are getting worried. Even the 0.1%, who may have rarely worried about our dysfunctional health care system before, are getting nervous. For example, this week, the Donald seemed panic stricken that Ebola infected American health workers might be allowed to return to the US, no matter what the precautions.  As reported by Politico,Donald Trump has a message for the Ebola patient coming to the United States for treatment: Stay out.'Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days — ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - August 5, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: ACTH Acthar deception Ebola virus executive compensation FDA health care prices marketing perverse incentives Questcor You heard it here first Source Type: blogs

Health Affairs Web First: For US Hospitals, A Mixed Report In Electronic Health Record Adoption
This study, which was supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will also appear in the December issue of Health Affairs. Adler-Milstein is affiliated with the University of Michigan; DesRoches is with Mathematica Policy Research; Kralovec directs the Health Forum; Foster is with the Health Research and Educational Trust; Worzala is affiliated with the American Hospital Association; Charles and Searcy are with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology; and Jha is affiliated with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Source: Health Affairs Blog - November 11, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Chris Fleming Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Health Professionals Hospitals Medicaid and CHIP Medicare EHRs meaningful-use criteria Web First Source Type: blogs

Meet Sharon Cobb: Aiming to Understand Pain in Aging African Americans
Credit: UCLA School of Nursing Sharon Cobb Field: Nursing Raised in: Los Angeles, California Studied at: University of California, Berkeley; Charles R. Drew University; and University of California, Los Angeles Musical skill: She can play the triangle if someone asks If she wasn’t a scientist, she would be: An event planner for celebrity weddings A single, life-defining moment is what often influences our choice of career paths. But for Sharon Cobb, three significant events empowered her to want to produce a change in society for those affected by health disparities. First, in high school, she was offered the chance to...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 20, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Emily Carlson Tags: Being a Scientist Source Type: blogs

Alzheimer's Care Resource Centers are a Useful Tool for Alzheimer's Caregivers
The Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers around the country are an important source of information and help for Alzheimer's caregivers and family caregivers.Alzheimer's Reading RoomI often receive emails from readers asking me how to find someone that is experienced in the diagnosis of dementia, or searching for help on other Alzheimer's care related problems. When this happens, the first thing I do is ask them their location.Alzheimer's CareThere are about 30 Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers (ADRC) around the country. When most people think ADRC they think research.However, most ADRCs have doctors in practice, practic...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - August 6, 2016 Category: Neurology Tags: ADRC alzheimer's care Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers family caregiving help alzheimer's help with dementia help with dementia care memory care Source Type: blogs