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By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, June 30, 2009
The Institute of Medicine released 100 health topics today that should receive priority attention and funding under the new national research initiative to identify healthcare services and procedures that work best.
By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, June 30, 2009
Fairly or not, healthcare reform advocates—including President Barack Obama—have made McAllen, TX, Exhibit A for much of what is driving the high cost of healthcare in the United States. At the same time, some experts say the climate in Washington, DC, is making business disadvantageous for the physician entrepreneur.
By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, June 30, 2009
While the AMA has garnered most of the attention in recent weeks about its healthcare reform views, other groups representing physicians have also been vocal about what they would and would not like to see in healthcare reform legislation.
By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, July 1, 2009
While the federal government has been involved in many high-profile fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid cases this year, some of the more striking examples of fraud are occurring within the private insurance industry, according to a new report from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in Washington, DC.
By: Janice Simmons, for HealthLeaders Media, July 1, 2009
Miami physician Roberto Rodriguez was sentenced this week to 97 months in prison for his role in a fraudulent Medicare scheme involving HIV infusion services. Rodriguez was also ordered to pay more than $9 million in restitution to the Medicare program during his sentencing hearing.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, July 1, 2009
Slightly more than half of the doctors who responded to a physician survey in Massachusetts last fall said they kept patients in the hospital longer than necessary because of a lack of access to home health services, according to a new report. But most of the doctors said they were aware that use of such agencies can safely reduce days of hospitalization and their cost as well as emergency room utilization, an increasing priority in the health reform agenda.