Health Care Inflation
This graph is from Milliman, courtesy of Uwe Reinhardt, who provides this commentary: This graph is from Milliman, courtesy of Uwe Reinhardt, who provides this commentary: The estimated average cost…
Physicians Too Aggressive in Ordering Prostate Screenings
Many elderly men may be undergoing unnecessary—and perhaps complicating—prostate cancer screenings, according to a study on the use of prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening methods in the United States. Researchers reported…
Health Care Buzz Today
Navy Calling on Gamers To Help with Security. The Office of Naval Research is rolling out the military’s first-ever online war game open to the public, crowd-sourcing the challenges of…
Repeal Without Replace Starts Destroying GOP’s Chances
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) gave Republicans a great big target to shoot at, and they’ve worked up so much energy attacking so-called ObamaCare that they’ve dug…
Millionaire Retirees
Starting next year…the typical husband and wife who reach age 66 and qualify for Social Security… will begin collecting a combination of cash and health-care entitlement benefits that will total…
New Test For Prostate Cancer Is More Specific and Reduces False-Positives
The A+PSA test measures levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) as well as six specific antibodies. Fast positives are also smaller in number, not drastically different but enough to…
You-Just-Can’t-Make-This-Up Feature of the Day
By its own calculation, Park Nicollet Clinic loses money on its Medicare patients… So last year, the company asked Dr. John Misa, the chief of primary care, to run an…
Strong Need for Vaccination in Low and Middle Income Countries
Earlier today, Bill Gates met with the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg to talk about scaling-up immunization efforts in advance of GAVI’s June 13th pledging conference. Earlier today, Bill Gates…
E-Prescribing: Garbage In, Garbage Out
Hoping to reduce medication errors and contain health care costs, policy makers are promoting electronic prescribing through Medicare and Medicaid financial incentives…. Hoping to reduce medication errors and contain health…
OB-GYN vs. Cosmetic-Gyn
Why don’t more doctors choose primary care? Here’s why doctors are choosing to specialize in vaginal cosmetic procedures rather than more general OB-GYN: Why don’t more doctors choose primary care?…
