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Bad medicine | Monitoring programs target substandard drugs
By Kerry Grens | May 17, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Patrick Lukulay faced a daunting task this month when he stepped off a plane in Accra, Ghana. Local clinics were reporting that oxytocin, a drug used to stop hemorrhaging after childbirth, was no longer working.
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J&J unit phasing out all-metal hip devices
By New York Times | May 17, 2013
The orthopedic unit of Johnson & Johnson said that it was phasing out production of all-metal replacement hips, a move reflecting an industrywide trend to abandon the once widely used implants because of high early failure rates.
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Oregon releases benchmark report on Medicaid reform
By Andis Robeznieks | May 17, 2013
The Oregon Health Authority released its benchmark-setting report tracking the progress of the state's Medicaid transformation program, which is projected to save $11 billion over the next 10 years.
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Bill expands opportunities for physician assistants in Missouri
By KCUR.org (Kansas City, Mo.) | May 17, 2013
Physician assistants may soon have more opportunities to practice in Missouri. A bill headed to the Governor's desk would provide more flexibility in how and where they provide care.
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House panel marks $344M for Defense-VA EHR
By Ashok Selvam | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The House Appropriations Committee this week marked $344 million for the development of an electronic health-record system that would allow the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments to share the same information.
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Reform Update: ACA foes, supporters trade volleys
By Jessica Zigmond | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Democrats and Republicans played another game of political tennis this week when House Republicans served up another vote to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Democrats returned a litany of reasons why the 2010 law is good for Americans.
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Quest acquires Concentra lab business
By Rachel Landen | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Quest Diagnostics, a Madison, N.J.-based provider of diagnostic information services, has acquired medical center operator Concentra's toxicology and clinical laboratory business and agreed to serve as Concentra's primary provider of workplace drug toxicology and clinical laboratory testing.
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Again, House votes to repeal reform law
By Jessica Zigmond | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
For the third time since early 2011, the House of Representatives approved legislation to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Decline in hospital CPI biggest since '97
By Melanie Evans | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Consumer prices for hospital services dropped 0.7% in April, the largest one-month decline since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics first reported the figures in January 1997. The drop follows a 0.4% increase the prior month, figures for the BLS Consumer Price Index show. In April 2012, hospital...
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Grandfathered health plans dwindling: analysis
By Jerry Geisel, Crain's Business Insurance | May 16, 2013
The percentage of employers with grandfathered healthcare plans continues to dwindle, according to a survey released Thursday.
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Reform Update: IRS controversy reaches ACA
By Jonathan Block | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The tentacles of the Internal Revenue Service controversy have reached the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. On Wednesday, Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduced legislation, the IRS Accountability Act, to halt funding to the IRS for new agents enforcing the ACA.
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Docs, NPs at odds on pay issues, roles: survey
By Andis Robeznieks | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Physicians and nurse practitioners agree that NPs should practice “to the full extent of their license.” But the two groups strongly disagree on whether doctors and nurse practitioners should receive equal pay for providing the same services and on whether NPs can lead a...
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Window to Washington Blog: Baucus, Sebelius keep focus on implementation, not outreach
By Rich Daly | May 16, 2013
When Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, told HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that he worried Obamacare’s implementation was headed for a “train wreck,” she publicly promised to bring him into the loop.
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Chodor no longer CEO of Happtique; Perlman takes over
By Melanie Evans | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Ben Chodor resigned in April as CEO of Happtique, a healthcare mobile application marketplace owned by a subsidiary of the Greater New York Hospital Association, but remains with the company.
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AMA sees profit decline by one-third
By Andis Robeznieks | May 16, 2013
Despite a 3.2% increase in membership, the American Medical Association's operating profit dropped by nearly 33% last year, which the organization's annual report said was due in a large part to “a material decline” in advertising revenue and coding book sales.
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Up to 20% of kids experience mental disorders: CDC report
By Jessica Zigmond | May 16, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Up to 1 in 5 children living in the U.S. have mental disorders, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about $247 billion is spent on children's mental health each year.
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Stem cells recovered from cloned human embryos
By Associated Press | May 16, 2013
Scientists have finally recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos, a long-standing goal that could lead to new treatments for such illnesses as Parkinson's disease and diabetes.
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Senate confirms Tavenner as CMS administrator
By Rich Daly | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed Wednesday as the first permanent CMS administrator since 2006.
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Reform Update: ACO Pioneers may be mulling their options
By Melanie Evans | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
As the deadline nears for Medicare's first accountable care organizations to decide whether they will continue with the initiative, at least one is debating whether to leave.
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CMS tightens focus with next round of innovation awards
By Jessica Zigmond | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The CMS Innovation Center will apply a more focused approach for the second round of the healthcare reform law's Health Care Innovation Awards that the agency announced Wednesday.
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Facility fees inflate hospital prices for common services
By Denver Post | May 15, 2013
The first time Jeff Shellan got a cardiac stress test for his troubled heart, the retail price was $2,166. His insurance company agreed to a discounted price of $885, of which Shellan paid $364. When his doctor suggested a retest a year later, the charge was $8,078, the discounted rate was $3,755,...
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Drop in hospital PPI biggest since '04
By Melanie Evans | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The acute-care hospital Producer Price Index dropped 0.6% in April, preliminary data show. The decline is the largest one-month slide for the hospital inflation measure since January 2004, the first month for which data are available.
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Green named CEO of URAC
By Maureen McKinney | May 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
URAC, a Washington-based healthcare measurement and accreditation organization, has named Kylanne Green president and CEO, effective July 22. Green succeeds Alan Spielman, who left his post Feb. 15 after serving as president and CEO since 2005.
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FDA approves radiation-based prostate cancer drug
By Associated Press | May 15, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new injectable drug that uses radiation to treat advanced prostate cancer that has spread to the bones.
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IOM report questions steep cuts in salt intake
By Ashok Selvam | May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Maintaining moderation in sodium consumption is key, according to a new Institute of Medicine report that supported past research and reiterated that high salt intake could cause heart disease, but which also warned that reducing salt intake below recommended dietary guidelines could be harmful.
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It's time 'to break cycle' on SGR: Baucus
By Rich Daly and Jonathan Block | May 14, 2013
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus opened the panel's first hearing in six years on Medicare physician pay with assertive rhetoric about scrapping the hated sustainable growth-rate formula this year. .
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Technology mandates ruining primary care
May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Regarding “Leap to ICD-11 not recommended: AMA board”: Our government is systematically decimating the practice of medicine in the U.S. It is past time to acknowledge the real costs and challenges of electronic documentation and the financial and physical toll our government has placed...
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C.R. Bard to pay $48.3 million to settle kickback case
By Modern Healthcare staff | May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Medical-device maker C.R. Bard Inc. agreed to pay $48.3 million to resolve allegations that the company illegally rewarded physicians and other customers for using its radiation seeds in the treatment of prostate cancer.
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89 charged in Medicare fraud busts
By Associated Press | May 14, 2013
Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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Reform Update: No clear map for Medicaid expansion in red states
By Rich Daly | May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Republican governors backing an expansion of Medicaid continue to hit headwinds in those efforts, and it is unclear what lessons can be drawn from the outcomes experienced by two of their colleagues.
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Most doctors still reject Medicaid as program expansion nears
By The Miami Herald | May 14, 2013
Because of the program's history of low payments, fewer than half of U.S. doctors and other healthcare professionals accept Medicaid patients, according to a recent study. For those that do, getting an appointment sometimes can take months because of the high demand, particularly among specialists.
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Four docs, HIE leader win AMDIS awards
By Joseph Conn | May 14, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Four physician informaticists and the leader of a health information exchange have been named winners of the 2013 annual awards for outstanding achievement in applied medical informatics given by the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems, the organization for physician...
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Vt. bill would let docs help patients die
By NBC News | May 14, 2013
Vermont is poised to become the fourth state to allow doctors to help terminally ill patients die. A bill approved Monday night by the state House would allow Vermont doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medication.
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