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- Grassley's Attack on Reform Belies Some Earlier Stands
- Sen. Grassley's wholesale attack on Democratic reform proposals stands in contrast to some of his past stands. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- Senate's Unified Reform Bill Owes Much to Finance Committee
- The Senate's unified health reform bill seems to have much in common with the Senate Finance Committee version but differs sharply from the House bill in several respects. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-11-19
- The House Busts The Budget By Passing a "Doc Fix"
- The House passed a bill reversing expected Medicare payment cuts to physicians. The CBO estimates that the legislation will cost the government $210 billion over 10 years. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- Medicare Advantage Cure Is Worse Than The Disease
- During the 2008 election campaign, then Sen. Obama and other Democratic Presidential candidates bemoaned the excessive amount that Medicare was paying private Medicare Advantage plans. And President Obama has made cutbacks in these payments part of his "reserve fund" for healthcare reform. But the way the government proposes to reduce...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- CBO Brings Obama Back To Earth on Preventive Care
- It’s an article of faith in the Obama Administration that better preventive care will reduce health costs. But Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas W. Elmendorf brought everyone back to earth when he pointed out, in a recent letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, that many preventive services cost...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Healthcare Is Still Adding Jobs, Despite Recession
- According to a recent survey by the Medical Group Management Association, the top three challenges of medical practice remain in the same in 2009 as they were in 2008: operating costs rising faster than revenues; maintaining physician compensation levels as reimbursement drops; and selecting and implementing an electronic health record....
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- UCSF Group Switches Allegiance from B&T to Hill IPA
- The byzantine mess of California’s interlocking medical groups and IPAs took a new turn as the University of California San Francisco UCSF Medical Group prepared to switch its affiliation from the city’s Brown & Toland IPA to San Ramon, CA-based Hill Physicians. Aside from giving the latter IPA an enlarged...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Healthcare Roundup: Medical Office Space in Demand, Blues Companies See Lower Income, Two Sides of Health Insurance, and More
- Medical Office Space Still in Demand â€" One indication that physicians as a whole are still doing ok is that medical office buildings are not having the same loan problems that other commercial real estate has. According to Real Capital Analytics, a New York research firm, only one percent of...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- MedPAC Backlash Shows Power of Special Interests
- Like a delayed fuse on a bomb, President Obama’s proposal to turn the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission MedPAC into a policymaking body has finally ignited an explosion, two months after he advanced the idea. And the reaction is showing the true colors of Congress and the power of the 3,300...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Will August Be The Cruelest Month For Reform?
- Well, this is shaping up to be an eventful August, despite Congress being in recess and half of the country being on vacation: Congressmen are getting shouted down by health reform opponents at town hall meetings. New details of the Senate Finance Committee deliberations are leaking out. And there's a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-09
- Healthcare Roundup: Individual Insurance in Spotlight, Drive-Through ED Visits, Investors Save Chicago-Area Hospital, and More
- Individual Mandate Challenged â€"Democratic Senators and liberal advocacy groups are questioning whether people of modest means will be able to afford health coverage if reform legislation includes an individual mandate along the lines being discussed in the Senate. Under the Senate Finance Committee's emerging bill, only people with incomes up...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- The Rationing Debate Starts To Heat Up
- Up to now, the debate over health care has focused mostly on how to cover the insured and how to control costs by paying providers less or reimbursing them on a different basis, such as pay for value. Much less attention has been paid to the need to ration careâ€"and...
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- OIG Slams Doctors for Using Unqualified Personnel
- Just when you thought you’d heard everything about the poor quality of care in our absurdly overpriced health system, something else comes along. Today, it arrived in the form of a report from the HHS Office of The Inspector General OIG. This report observes that unqualified non-physicians perform many clinical...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Health Plans Need Government Programs
- Even as private insurance companies and their advocates in Congress and the media assail proposals to expand government-sponsored insurance, health plans are relying increasingly on government programs to boost their profits. One illustration of that are the recent results of Humana. Despite the recession, Humana’s second-quarter net...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Physicians Know We Need Reform
- America’s physicians favor healthcare reform much more strongly than the general public does. In the wake of the AMA’s pledge of support for Congressional reform proposals, a coalition of seven other physician organizations sent a letter backing reform to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last week. The medical societies, which...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- What Can US Learn From European Health IT Experience?
- Mainly because of the HITECH Act, part of the economic stimulus legislation passed earlier this year, the U.S. is now finally heading down the road toward widespread health IT adoption and a national health information network. But the discussion about this strategy often gets bogged down in such details as...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- HHS Will Choose Criteria for EHR Certification
- While the debate over “meaningful use†of electronic health records rages on, it has been easy to forget the other half of the requirement for getting government health IT subsidies: Physicians and hospitals must use “qualified†EHRs. Since the passage of the HITECH Act, part of last...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Public Option Waffling Enrages Left Wing
- Now that the Obama Administration has signaled its willingness to back off from a “public option†and accept nonprofit cooperatives in its place, the left wing of the Democratic party is going ballistic. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean has said reform is dead without the public option, and Ariana Huffington...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- HHS Office Will Be Funded Partly By The HIPAA Fines It Levies
- Have you ever heard of a federal agency in charge of enforcing a set of regulations that is partly funded by the penalties it imposes on violators? I had not, until I began researching the provisions of the HITECH Act that are related to the HIPAA privacy and security rules....
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Healthcare Roundup: Dems' Public Plan Deal Falls Apart, CCHIT Moves on, ONC Unveils Extension Centers, and More
- Lame Blue Dogs Leading the Blind Dems - According to the Wall Street Journal, a deal struck in July between the liberal and "Blue Dog" Democratic factions over how much to pay doctors in the proposed public plan has fallen apart. The Blue Dogs want the Department of Health and...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
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