Posts Tagged ‘care’
Health Care Fraud, Prescription Theft Lead To Significant Losses
ABC News: “A four month ‘Nightline’ investigation into Medicare fraud makes one thing perfectly clear: this is a crime that pays and pays and pays. The federal government admits that a staggering $60 billion is stolen from tax payers through Medicare scams every year. Some experts believe the number is more than twice that…
Protecting Patients Via Health-Care Worker Vaccination
Healthcare personnel influenza immunization rates have remained low, despite recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other leading healthcare organizations that all healthcare personnel receive annual flu vaccines. Experts say these levels are perilous. Increasing vaccination rates substantially improves patient safety, lowering flu deaths by 40 percent…
President Announces Plans To Crack Down On Health Care Fraud
The Boston Globe: “President Barack Obama said Tuesday he’ll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system. … Obama’s anti-fraud announcement was aimed directly at the political middle.” “Waste and fraud are pervasive problems for Medicare and Medicaid. …
GOP Rejects Obama’s Compromise On Health Care, Wants ‘New Approach’
USA Today: “President Obama offered to add a handful of Republican ideas to his 10-year, $950 billion health care plan Tuesday but was rebuffed and urged to start over.The letter from Obama to the GOP signalling his interest in four specific Republican health reform ideas was met with an icy reception from Republican leaders. …
Neurologists On Capitol Hill To Push For Health Care Reform
What: More than 100 neurologists from 40 states will be in Washington, DC, March 8-9, 2010, for “Neurology on the Hill,” an event hosted by the American Academy of Neurology to educate lawmakers about the need for health care reform changes that consider neurologists and the patients they treat, including people with Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, mi…
How Health Care Is Paid For Appears To Impact Outcome
Whether an individual is treated for a hip fracture at a hospital reimbursed by Medicare or is treated at a Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center makes a significant difference in what happens to the patient after release from the medical facility, according to a large study which may contribute to the ongoing debate on how to pay for health care…
Criticism, Passion Emerge At Day-Long Health Care Meeting
Strong personalities and opinions emerged at yesterday’s bipartisan health care summit. NPR interviewed Rep. Dave Camp, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. Camp said: “We were able to at least be heard and have some exposure to the ideas that we’ve been promoting for a long time…
Sebelius Awards Over $10 Million To Utah To Test Innovations In Children’s Health Care
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a grant of over $10 million to Utah to improve health care quality and delivery systems for children enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…
Significant amount of inappropriate CT and MRI referrals from primary care physicians, study finds
A large academic medical center has found that a significant percentage of outpatient referrals they receive from primary care physicians for computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging studies are inappropriate (based upon evidence-based appropriateness criteria developed by a radiology benefits management company), according to a new study.
Study Says Lower-Cost Hospitals Don’t Have Lower Quality Care For Certain Illnesses
A study Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine found little difference in outcomes between hospitals with longer patient stays and shorter ones, which could make it “possible to lower costs in the U.S. system without hurting patients,” Reuters reports…
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