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• Diagnosis Goes Beyond Sequester for Cancer Patients

  
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  Dr. Jeffery C. Ward, a cancer specialist, has not yet faced the painful task many of his colleagues have this year: closing the door to patients because of federal budget cuts. But thats only because Ward already made the hard choice of switching from running a private practice to serving on staff at a large hospital.
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• Odds Are Against Congress Restoring Cancer Drug Funding

  
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  Lawmakers and outside coalitions supported by doctors and drug companies face an uphill battle in their bid to reverse sequester cuts that have hit cancer drugs.
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• HIV Opportunistic Infection Guidelines Updated

  
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  Some very hard-working folks at the NIH, CDC, and IDSA have updated the  Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents , which are available for review here . As with the previous versions (the prior iteration is from 2009), the OI Guidelines are ...
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• What an Irony: A Wise Policy Shift With Monopolistic Impact?

  
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  The FDA has banned generic availability of the original formulation of OxyContin® (Purdue Pharma LP’s brand of oral controlled-release oxycodone). OxyContin ® was approved by the FDA in 1995 and was first marketed in the US in 1996. Within a very short time, OxyContin® was the most frequently prescribed brand ...
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• Are health care costs starting to stabilize?

  
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  Health care costs are the biggest contributor to our long term deficits, and so this issue gets a ton of attention in Washington. President Obama has argued for years that simply bending the long term cost curve on health care will result in huge savings regarding government spending helping to reduce deficits. The ...
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• My Controversial 340B Op-Ed

  
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  Last week, congressional news site The Hill published my editorial on the 340B drug discount program. Read it here: Hospitals twist prescription assistance program for their own benefit . (The full text is also pasted below). Some of you will agree with my perspective. Others of you will violently disagree. ...
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• Medicare Hospital Payment: MedPAC Recommends One Percent Rate Increase for FY 2014

  
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  Hospitals face another year of tight Medicare reimbursement, with rates for FY 2014 falling farther behind cost increases and margins declining as a result.  Most hospitals already lose money on caring for Medicare and Medicaid patients.  Hospitals are entering a far more challenging new business environment under ...
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• Health Care Costs: Slowdown in Growth is Because of Economy, Not Obamacare

  
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  Growth in health care spending has slowed recently.  Why?  Supporters of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – aka Obamacare – says its due to the controversial law, although most of the ACA’s provisions are yet to take effect.  However, new evidence shows that the economy is the cause of the lower rate of ...
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• Medicare and Medicaid Spending on Dual Eligible Populations: Analysis of Health Costs

  
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  Much of the story about rising health costs and spending has to do with relatively small groups of people with expensive health needs. For example, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) estimates Medicare beneficiaries with two or more chronic conditions accounted for 93 percent of Medicare ...
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• Pink ribbons don’t cure breast cancer

  
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  By Dr. Kenny Lin First Posted at Common Sense Family Doctor on 4/25/2013 “I used to believe that a mammogram saved my life,” begins breast cancer survivor Peggy Orenstein in a revelatory New York Times Magazine story that every woman (and man) should read before making personal decisions about screening for ...
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• GOP at Cross Purposes on Obamacare

  
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  To repeal or dismantle? That is the internal debate roiling House Republicans as they plot their strategy on the landmark 2010 health care law, as its implementation accelerates.
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• Health Insurance Anxiety on Capitol Hill

  
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  Lawmakers and congressional staff members are concerned about whether the federal government will continue to pay part of their premiums as they move to buying insurance through the exchanges next year.
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• Let doctors see health care costs

  
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  Here’s a fascinating tidbit. When doctors know the cost of tests and procedures , it affects how often they will order them. We also know that patients will think twice when they have to pay even modest amounts for tests. This is all just further evidence that we need to change the way we do things if we’re ...
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• Health Care Insurance: What’s The Big Deal?

  
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  Everybody needs to be medically covered through Health Care Insurance , regardless of your present state of health, and where you live. Affordable Health Care is key to the quality of life. This poses a big challenge because of the ever rising costs of health care everywhere. To be insured or not, is not the ...
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• Medicare Physician Sustainable Growth Rate: Repealing SGR

  
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  For over a decade, the sustainable growth rate (SGR) has been a source of financial worry for physicians who serve Medicare patients. Medicare’s physician payment rate is based on a composite measure of the cost of care, multiplied by a factor derived from the SGR formula. Every year since 2002, the SGR has ...
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• Not Having Health Insurance May Be More Hazardous In The End

  
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  With today’s economic doubt along with the threat of losing jobs, many people are looking to cut corners with regards to their own expenditures. They try to save on almost anything believe that shouldn’t be essential of their everyday living. Corporations as well as are cutting back on expenditures to Read More »
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• Medicare Payment Reform: Post-Acute Provider Reimbursement

  
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  The term “ post-acute care ” (PAC) covers a range of services patients receive after a hospital stay. Skilled nursing facilities , home health care agencies, long-term care hospitals , and inpatient rehabilitation hospitals all provide post-acute care. PAC providers are an important part of efforts to reduce ...
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• Health Care Insurance – Saving Lives and Money

  
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  Health Care Insurance , when you pick the right one, can potentially help save both lives and money for you and your loved ones. There are all kinds of Health Care Insurance packages, and admittedly, not everyone can have them all. Take what you can afford, and when you can afford more, improve your package. ...
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• Postexposure Prophylaxis (PEP) After Blast Injuries

  
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  From a colleague came this query: We are being consulted by surgeons who are finding within blast victims tissues from other humans. We have been offering post-exposure prophylaxis. Have you folks developed any policies re PEP for explosion victims? Welcome your thoughts, P Needless to say, the bombing victims are ...
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• Perverse incentives for hospital profits

  
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  Free image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net If you want to know one reason why our health care system is so screwed up, please read this article . It explains how hospitals often make more money when complications arise during surgery. Patients who suffer complications after surgery are lucrative for ...
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