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• in Social Media
  Autopsy-Averse Hospitals Bury Their Mistakes
  Medical errors go undetected when the deceased hospital patient gets sent to the mortuary without an autopsy. And that happens more and more.
  by patmalone51 / on Dec 18, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “health care costs”

 

• Hospital CEO Pledges To Make Health Care Prices Public

  
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  The chief executive of a Miami, Florida hospital has pledged to begin addressing one of the most dysfunctional aspects of the American health care system, according to MedCity News . He’s striving for greater price transparency — giving patients and doctors the ability to easily see, before purchase , just what ...
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• Health IT to Raise Costs, and Other Links

  
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  73% of doctors: Health IT will raise quality; 71%: it will also raise costs. Fidelity: A 65-year-old couple retiring this year will need $220,000 on average to cover medical expenses. The highest paid public employee in your state is… [HT: Jason Shafrin ]
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• Health Insurance Premiums and Obesity

  
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  Contributor: “Dr. J” Dr. J offers his irreverent, slightly irrelevant, but possibly useful opinions on health and fitness. A Florida surgeon and fitness freak with a black belt in karate, he runs 50 miles a week and flies a Cherokee Arrow 200. It’s well known that obesity’s direct medical, productivity, ...
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• The Star Thrower, or How Healthcare Looks to Consumers

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Lisa Suennen First Posted at Venture Valkyrie on 5/19/2013 It is always interesting how events find ways of connecting themselves together even when they seem so unrelated. I was at my sister Alexis’ graduation from law school on Friday, where I had gone directly from leaving a several day event organized by ...
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• ER docs are key to reducing health care costs

  
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  Emergency physicians are key decisionmakers for nearly half of all hospital admissions, highlighting a critical role they can play in reducing health care costs, according to a new report from the...
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• Vitamin D screening: few pros, many cons

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Dr. Kenny Lin First Posted at Common Sense Family Doctor on 5/18/2013 The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently announced its intent to review the evidence and issue recommendations about screening for vitamin D deficiency, after finding insufficient evidence to recommend routine supplementation for the ...
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• And now presenting . . . robotic lap choles!

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Paul Levy First Posted at Not Running a Hospital on 5/9/2013 As a non-medical person, I was so excited when I could say”laparoscopic cholecystectomy” without pausing or tripping over all the syllables.  In English, this is a surgery to remove a gall bladder using laparoscopic instruments through holes in the ...
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• A Terrific Article on Cost and Quality by Leah Binder

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Thomas Emerick First Posted at Cracking Health Costs on 5/10/2013 Leah Binder has written a great article in Forbes and recent revelations on hospital charges and the lack of correlation with quality. Click here to read the full article. Writes Leah,  “A Rational Person might wonder if the variation in ...
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• Is There Hope for Real Market-Driven Reform? Yes

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Thomas Emerick First Posted at Cracking Health Costs on 5/7/2013 According to a news story on Kaiser Health News, Boston Children’s is taking on,“Overuse of some medical treatments – and underuse of others, when patients fail to get recommended care — are two factors linked to high medical spending in the ...
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• Prescription Drug Spending Drops As Struggling Americans Are Forced To Cut Back On Health Care

  
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  (Credit: ClearScript) For the first time in decades, U.S. prescription drug spending dropped last year — a phenomenon largely stemming from the fact that, faced with spiraling health costs , Americans are being forced to cut back on their care wherever they can. According to a new report from IMS Institute for ...
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• Will the CommonWell Health Alliance Succeed at Solving Nationwide Data Exchange?

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Waco Hoover First Posted at Institute for Health Technology Transformation on 4/8/2013 The Health IT Policy Committee recently analyzed the CommonWell Health Alliance, a newly formed vendor-led coalition to promote interoperability. The Alliance comprised ...
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• The Latest Health Wonk Review

  
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  At Managed Care Matters, Joe Paduda presents highlights of recent health policy blogging in a new Health Wonk Review . Among the pieces Joe highlights are Health Affairs Blog posts by John Holahan & Stacey McMorrow and Charles Roehrig on the causes and likely longevity of the recent slowdown in health ...
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• Useless noise from CMS

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Paul Levy First Posted at Not Running a Hospital on 5/8/2013 What on earth did CMS have in mind when it released the FY2011 chargemasters for America’s hospitals?  Well, according to one report: The public release of the data is part of an effort by Medicare to increase transparency in the health system.  ...
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• A Million-Dollar Patient

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 142
  This is what happens when the government ignores Dr. Jeffrey Brenner : For more than two decades, Wanda Remo has battled one illness after another. Asthma , chronic lung disease , heart disease , high blood pressure , arthritis , depression, chronic pain, strokes . Specialists treat her lungs, her heart and ...
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• A Framework For Accountable Care Measures

  
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  The Affordable Care Act included provisions to accelerate the transition to value-based payment, including Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Many private sector insurers, providers and employers also are moving in this direction. However, many of today’s measures are inadequate to the task of assessing and ...
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• Physician Practice Satisfaction: Why We Should Care

  
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  In less than nine months millions of Americans will receive new health care coverage through provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Most observers believe that strong physician leadership can help heath care reform succeed, through the optimization of care quality and cost management. But, at the same time, too many ...
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• RAND: Premium Support Best Way to Reform Medicare

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 142
  In 25 years Medicare spending is projected to reach one-quarter of all federal expenditures, about 6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Several proposals to reduce the growth of Medicare expenditures have been debated in recent years. These include: 1)    Mean-tested premiums for Medicare Part A ...
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• Federal budget outlook is improving

  
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  The economy is steadily improving, and now we’re seeing improvement with the US budget deficit . In February, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that this year’s deficit would fall to $845 billion, down from nearly $1.1 trillion in 2012. Goldman Sachs recently predicted that the deficit would ...
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• Medicare makes big news with big data dump on hospital charges

  
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  The Washington Post Wonkblog:  “ One hospital charges $8,000 – another, $38,000 .” The piece contains an interactive graphic to allow readers to check on how much providers charge in their state.  And it used this graphic:   The Huffington Post:  “ Hospital Prices No Longer Secret As New Data ...
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• The Surprising Link Between Religious Belief And Health Care Spending

  
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  (Credit: The Telegraph) A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine raises a provocative question: can patients’ religious faith — and the spiritual support given to them by their caregivers — influence their decisions on end-of-life medical services and ...
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