Study: Hospital Discharge of Medicare Beneficiaries Increased Utilization Rates and Spending Post Discharge
An observational trial published in the latest issue of Annals shows that the initial savings to overall healthcare costs incurred by acute hospitals with hospitalist (hospital-based physician) care are offset…
Coaching Into Care Can Help Vets
Coaching Into Care works with family members or friends who become aware of their Veteran’s post-deplo Coaching Into Care works with family members or friends who become aware of their Veteran’s post-deployment…
Elective Coronary Stenting: A Case in Context
The Case In 2009, administrators at St. Joseph Medical Center in Maryland wrote letters to patients of Mark Midei, informing them that its staff cardiologist may have subjected them to…
Are You Considering Having Orthopedic Surgery?
Learn more about Are You Considering Having Orthopedic Surgery?.Do I *need* surgery? Have you been told you should have, or at least that you should consider having Orthopedic Surgery? Do you know…
Health Care Buzz Today
Sweetened Drinks Boost Heart Disease Risk. Beverages sweetened with fructose or high-fructose corn syrup can worsen cardiovascular risk factors, even in the young and healthy, researchers have found. Sweetened Drinks…
Antipsychotic Drugs Called Hazardous for the Elderly
A government audit has revealed that nearly one in seven elderly nursing home residents, nearly all suffering dementia are given antipsychotic drugs even though the medicines increase the risks of…
Drug Co-Pay Cards: Can We All Just Get Along?
The editor of Drug Benefit News, Anthony Vecchione asserts (Copay Cards Could Be Win-Win If All Sides Work Together). I really don’t think so. In fact, my home state of…
Nuance PaperPort Goes to the Cloud
PaperPort has been around a long time and if you don’t find a full medical records system in place in practice today, there’s a good chance that PaperPort is at…
Debt Ceiling Deal Rattles Healthcare Delivery Prospects, Social Security and Medicaid Spared
The initial spin on the recently squared away budget deal preventing a national default relates a necessary evil that not only carries the partisan rift seen in advance of the…
Medicare Pays to Treat Heart Patients Who Smoke, but Doesn’t Help Them Quit
Cardiac patients who continue to smoke face a risk of death that is up to five times as high as those who quit, according to The American Journal of Cardiology.…
