Anti-RUC Suit Challenges Process for Setting Doc Pay Scales
Whither CMS? That’s the issue raised by Brian Klepper and David Kibbe in their post on the Health Affairs website this morning. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services faces…
Social Media, Diet and Cancer
The new book is out about Steve Jobs. You may have already heard that he regretted delaying surgery for months for a type of pancreatic cancer and explored alternatives, including…
Promising Malaria Vaccine
News this month that an experimental vaccine cuts in half the risk of malaria in children in Africa is a welcome success story 20+ years in the making.…
FDA Cautions Against Pharma-Jet Needle-Free Flu Shots
Painless needle free flu shots, the FDA says they may not work due to the fact that they have not approved “injector devices” for the shot. If you got one…
Hospital ER: Saturday Night Special?
This Phil Galewitz piece ran in the Washington Post back in August, but it’s still timely: This Phil Galewitz piece ran in the Washington Post back in August, but it’s…
Tissue Engineering and Cell Therapy Future Markets
Cell therapy is defined as a process whereby new cells are introduced into tissue as a method of treating disease; the process may or may not include gene therapy. Cell…
New CMS ACO Rules Are Designed to Promote Adoption within Reform
Posted in CMSHealthcare Policy & The MediaKnowledge & MedicinePharma & DevicesCMSHealthcare Policy & The MediaKnowledge & MedicinePharma & DevicesPolitics & The LawNew rules for accountability care organizations out today from…
Video: ICD-10 National Provider Call
Description: In this National Provider Call on ICD-10 Implementation Strategies for Physicians, CMS subject matter experts discuss ways that physician offices can prepare for the change to ICD-10 for medical…
Long Term Services and Supports Scorecard
This State Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Scorecard is a multidimensional approach to measure state-level performance of LTSS systems that provide assistance to older people and adults with disabilities. Performance…
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) “Grand Challenge”
Grand Challenges—the call to identify and resolve the biggest barriers to resolving global problems—have been around awhile. They started in 1900 with the German mathematician David Hilbert, who identified 23…
