Trends in Medicare Part D
Recent research from Avalere Health, LLC using Medicare Part D reveals some interesting trends. Overall, premiums for fee-for-service prescription drug plans (PDPs) increased by 3%. For beneficiaries who enrolled in…
Key ACA Provision Regarding Medicare Spending Oversight Finds Many Foes
Recent concerns of two members of congress have upped the ante in the war against a key provision of the ACA: the development of an independent payment advisory board[
An Alternative to Malpractice
About three decades ago, University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein proposed a radical alternative to our system of malpractice liability. He called it “liability by contract.” The idea: let…
Multi-Tasking and Aging
According to the National Academy of Sciences older adults have more trouble with multitasking than younger people. According to the National Academy of Sciences older adults have more trouble with…
New Alzheimer’s Guidelines: Better Late than Never
For the first time in 30 years, an expert panel has updated guidelines for the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. The long overdue facelift should favorably impact care for millions and…
Reducing Surgical Complications – The Checklist
Hospitals are not safe places – that’s a fact and is also a fact that, despite substantial efforts over the past few years, hospitals remain unsafe. It is estimated that…
Privacy, Anonymity and Net Neutrality On the Internet – Excellent Stanford University Lecture (Video)
This a a good lecture and answers a lot of questions and covers items even from the TSA and their privacy issues. Emails at work, all saved due to laws…
Spine Surgery Still Reliant on Spine Fusion
The clinical demand for options to treat spine trauma and disease remain high, well supported by reimbursement , and is therefore an active target of continued development by manufacturers in…
Why do People in High Deductible Plans Seek Less Preventive Care?
A notable finding from a RAND study How Do Consumer-Directed Health Plans Affect Vulnerable Populations? is that members in high deductible plans receive fewer preventive services, such as mammography, after…
Congresswoman’s Staff Renews Call for Funding of Care for Complex Head Injuries
Sometimes it only takes a troubling incident — which is then propelled front and center into the nation’s consciousness — to formulate advocacy. AZ congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s close call with…
