GLG News by Economic Experts on Managed Care

Increasing interest rates and debt service, a Decrease in available cash, a Migration to more fixed rate borrowing and appeals to state governments for assistance, a delay in physical plant additions/upgrades

Three presentations at this week's AAN meeting in Chicago are adding in a big way to accumulating evidence that intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) may slow, halt or even PREVENT accumulation of toxic beta-amyloid -- a prime culprit in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in millions of aging individuals....

Wachovia follows what it takes to do right things to correct the pitfalls.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Whelan issued a preliminary injunction April 8, 2008 stopping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from proceeding with the first of two congressionally-mandated clinical laboratory competitive-bidding demonstration projects.  Does this mean higher...

Pennsylvania is a bell weather for hospital reporting in the US.  The "hospital costing containment council" (I forget the name) is famous for highlighting percentage of patients acquiring hospital infections after arrival.  Accountability for these very high costs lay with people managing...

Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX) and Epigenomics (Frankfurt Prime Standard: ECX) have entered into a non-exclusive agreement for Quest to use Epigenomics' Septin 9 DNA metylation biomarker for colorectal cancer.  Because this molecular test requires just a simple blood sample, it could result...

If I may, Mr. Goldstein suggests that education to providers re: cost/benefit or value will drive drug selection.  I disagree in that there are may barriers to provider (most physicians) behavior and their selection of drugs.  To mention a few are as follows:  1. My anecdotal experience...

From the rather strick interpretration of Peter Stark's antitrust principles complied with mostly in the 1980's we have entered an era where rampent greed and highly sophisticated antitrust relationships exists in nearly of all hospitals especially with their own "dedicated" (read as owned)  multispecialty...

Illegal and unethical bribes to orthopedists have gone on since time immemorial and have been visible throughout the medical and device profession and business.  Yet little (despite Peter Robert Stark's attempt) to separate this added incentive from the most highly paid specialists in medicine,...

The DOJ joins in when they have reviewed materials and believe it likely that there is a case with some civil or criminal violations.