Class Helps People Help Elders
From the LA Times... Valencia's College of the Canyons in Ca. has designed a course to train students to help the elderly cope with chronic medical conditions and live more…
Raise Medicare Age? That’s Cost Shifting, Not Cost Saving
Mitt “Two Cadillacs” Romney in his Detroit speech on Friday said he’d like to raise the age on Medicare eligibility to 67 to save the taxpayers money. A Congressional Budget…
The Status of Health Insurance Exchanges
With less than two years before state-based health insurance exchanges are to be operational, most state legislators and health policy experts still cannot come to an agreement on how to…
BREAKING: New Rules on HSAs
HHS has issued a “guidance bulletin” which states how they intend to define the minimum “actuarial value” that health plans must meet starting in 2014. If a plan does not…
Protecting Workers Against Violence is Worth the Cost
I was recently interviewed for an article in Healthcare Finance News about the cost of protecting workers against violence. It came about because of a ANA survey looking safety concerns in the workplace…
Meaningful Use, Secondary Use and Big Data
EXCLUSIVE POST - At HIMSS 2012 in Las Vegas, everyone was anticipating the announcement on Stage 2 of Meaningful use from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). The announcement…
Finding Fraud in Medicare Claims
Certainly one of the methods to reduce fraud is to catch the opportunists that see the U.S. Treasury as easy pickings. Hidden in the maze of billing, coding,…
Honesty in Medicine: Do Doctors Tell the Truth?
Did Washington Chop Down the Cherry Tree?Did Washington Chop Down the Cherry Tree?Courtesy of National Archives…resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot…
Study: Risk of Death in Elderly Patients with Dementia Doubled with Some Antipsychotic Medications
Posted in Knowledge & MedicinePharma & Devices Posted in Knowledge & MedicinePharma & DevicesWhen training as a geriatric medicine fellow many, many years ago, I was always taught to be…
