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• Patients have a role in controlling health care costs

  
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  To cut costs in our health system, reformers target the massive of waste. One way to reduce waste is to change the way doctors are paid. The fee for service payment system, they say, encourages doctors to prescribe more expensive care, which lines their pockets and drive up the cost of care. To combat this trend, ...
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• Will your health insurer pay to train your doctor?

  
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  Lost in the weeds of President Obamas budget proposal is a 10-year, $11 billion reduction in Medicare funding for graduate medical education (GME). GME is the "residency" part of medical training, in which medical school graduates (newly minted MDs and DOs) spend three to seven years learning the ropes of their ...
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• Cutting the Cost of Health Cover for the Over 50s

  
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  As we get older and inevitably wiser, it becomes increasingly important to think about the health risks associated with the ageing process. This could include a healthier diet, more exercise or thinking about private health cover. The various benefits of private healthcare are a lot more attractive in later ...
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• Diabetes: Health ‘Coaches’ Will Help To Combat Rising Diabetes Cases

  
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  Pennsylvania has a moderate rate of increase in diabetes hospitalizations, accounting less than 1 per cent over the last two years, however, diabetes is a serious problem in this region. An amount of 8 per cent of adults of this state is affected by diabetes, which is 1 per cent above the 7 per cent people affected ...
  2 weeks ago

• Money, medicine and myopia

  
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  An opinion piece in the New York Times of April 4 makes the case that health care policy tends to lag well behind the imperatives of practice. The particular example highlighted is bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery, so goes the argument, is now extremely prevalent and of proven value in the treatment of severe ...
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• Prevention: Who needs it?

  
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  Weve been blogging for some time about threats to the Prevention and Public Health Fund , a fund that supports many critical prevention efforts, including funding state health departments to coordinate healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention and enhancing laboratory capacity to detect infectious diseases ...
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• Obamacare fee will cost you

  
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  Americans are learning of a new fee attached to Obamacare. This fee is expected to rake in $25 billion over three years, and many corporations arent happy. Millions of dollars could flow from major companies into government coffers if the fee is implemented as planned. The cost? Sixty-three dollars per person per ...
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• What do Americans want from health care?

  
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  I know what I want, in health care, that is. I want it to be efficient, effective, thoughtful and inexpensive. I want it to create healthy people who dont need very much health care. I want it to involve elegant solutions to problems that take less time, money and effort. I want it to be so much easier and less ...
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• A call for physician payment reform

  
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  Readers know that I dislike the current fee-for-service model, because it encourages volume throughput. A new commission agrees: To contain health care costs, pay doctors differently . We cannot control runaway medical spending without changing how physicians in this country are paid, which is currently the single ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trickle-up economics and a new health care model

  
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  Its been a month since I started my new practice. We are up to nearly 150 patients now, and aside from the cost to renovate my building, our revenue has already surpassed our spending. The reason this is possible is that a cash-pay practice in which 100% of income is paid up front has an incredibly low overhead. My ...
  3 weeks ago

• Personal genomics--maybe an excellent idea?

  
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  My son, who is 19, wanted a nice jacket and his genome for Christmas this year. He had found out that a company called 23andMe would tell him about his genetic susceptibility for diseases and his ancestry for only $99. 23andMe is a private company that started doing direct to consumer genetic testing in 2007 and has ...
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• QD: News Every Day--Diagnostic errors the most common, costly of malpractice claims

  
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  Diagnostic errors were the most common, costly and dangerous of medical mistakes among malpractice claims, and not surgical and OB/GYN claims, a study found. Researchers analyzed more than 350,000 paid, closed malpractice claims from the National Practitioner Data Bank from 1986 to 2010. Results appeared online at ...
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• QD: News Every Day--Knowing costs makes providers pause before ordering tests

  
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  Providers were more miserly about ordering tests when they know ahead of time how much they would cost, a study found. To determine whether providing costs of tests would reduce the number of laboratory tests ordered, researchers conducted a controlled clinical trial among physicians and nonphysicians using ...
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• #sellingsickness 2013

  
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  I attended a fascinating conference called "Selling Sickness" that took place in Washington, D.C. It was three years in the making, as the previous iterations of it took place in Australia in 2006 and Amsterdam in 2010. How did I wind up there? An academic paper that I co-authored was noticed by some smart folks ...
  4 weeks ago

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