Are There Differences in Medicare Spending Across States?
Research by the Dartmouth Atlas team has indicated that Medicare spending is concentrated regionally. States such as Florida spend much more per beneficiary than do doctors who treat similar patients…
Is Medicaid Real Insurance?
As governors across the land pepper the federal government with requests to scale back Medicaid — many people are losing sight of the fact that health care reform (what some…
Supreme Court Hands Vaccine Makers a Big Win
Vaccine makers won a big victory last week when the Supreme Court ruled by a 6-2 margin that US law effectively protects them from product-liability suits based on claims of…
Conflicts of Interest in Guideline Development: a Dirty Little Secret
An Archives of Internal Medicine article (Conflicts of Interest in Cardiovascular Clinical Practice Guidelines) is getting a lot of notice today. In essence, many of the physicians who develop guideline…
Organized Wisdom Inspires Doctors to Go Online: Interview
This is the transcript of my recent podcast with OrganizedWisdom co-founder Unity Stoakes. David Williams: This is David E. Williams, co-founder of MedPharma Partners and author of the Health Business…
SEC Lawsuit Against FDA Chemist for Insider Trading
Insider trading issues seem to reach all levels of society and not just those working in the financial areas of business. I guess when you stop and think if you…
Why Are Good Hospitals Good?
Do high volume providers get better results because they perform procedures more often? Or do they perform procedures more often because of referrals from doctors who know they are good…
Insurance Coverage Denials: Private versus Public
The people behind the coming denials: The people behind the coming denials: has fewer than twenty physicians on its coverage staff and fewer than forty total clinicians once pharmacists, nurses,…
Osteoarthritis and Obesity Can Shave 3.5 Years of Healthy Life
Harvard Medical School conducted a study that showed that close to 40% of elderly Americans are obese or have osteoarthritis of the knee, or both, which, on average, eliminates…
How Increasing Medicare Age of Eligibility Saves Under Reform
One of the stopgaps in federal spending on healthcare proposed by the GOP-led House this session is the ongoing discussion of entitlement spending and the effect of redefining eligibility with…
