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Alan Zaccaria, MD, Plastic Surgeon
Alan Zaccaria, MD, Plastic Surgeon
Alan Zaccaria, MD, FACS
Analysis of: Renal Failure Linked to Cosmetic Soft-Tissue Filler Injections (www.medscape.com)
Only FDA approved fillers administered by experienced, licensed physicians should be injected into patients.  Also, the small volumes that are used today should not pose systemic problems that were seen in this article.
Analysis of: Amgen Drug Helps Bones (online.wsj.com)
Postmenopausal osteoporosis is a real problem for a huge number of the older aged patients, and the population is aging. In daily orthopaedic praxis, I see a lot of osteoporosis related fractures of the wrist, the hip, and the vertebral column. Just yesterday, I operated a pseudarthrosis in the femoral...
January 18, 2008
Quality or Profit ?
Analysis of: Insurers Stop Paying for Care Linked to Errors (online.wsj.com)
Patient safety or corporate profits via any excuse for payment ?
Alan Zaccaria, MD, Plastic Surgeon
Alan Zaccaria, MD, Plastic Surgeon
Alan Zaccaria, MD, FACS
Analysis of: Medicis and Revance Announce Strategic Collaboration (www.pipelinereview.com)
It is not unexpected that Medicis is expanding into the "Botox" business since its rival company, Allergan, has a monopoly on the market.  Allergan also has Juviderm, which competes directly with Restylane, the hit product by Medicis.  This will place Medicis back into the competitive market...
Analysis of: Leavitt: Doctors Need Electronic Records (www.sfgate.com)
Politics in general always has a resolve or an excuse for their failure to understand the mechanics of a proposal that mandates electronic records. May of the small companies such as mine have been electronic for many years. Doctors have differning opinions as do many providers in the healthcare...
December 6, 2007
why are drugs exempted
Analysis of: Strategies to Avoid Medicare’s Big Hole (www.nytimes.com)
All Part B medicare providers have their prices set by medicare at will why are the drug companies exempt from this same policy
Analysis of: CombinatoRx Announces Initiation of Phase 2a Clinical Study of CRx-191 in Psoriasis (www.pipelinereview.com)
The combination of a topical steroid with an antidepressant seems to be intriguing. Antidepressant have shown some anti-pruritic activity in atopic dermatitis. The major disadvantage of the current investigational drug is the sue with occlussive dressings. That makes it impossible to use the drug for...
Analysis of: Hospice Reimbursement for Nursing Home Patients (oig.hhs.gov)
Those programs that have a large census in the nursing home NH will be at risk for decreased revenues and closer scrutiny of their programs. Growth estimates for all programs that center their services on NFs will need to change their focus.
Glen McDaniel, MS, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer
Glen McDaniel, MS, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer
GM Global
Analysis of: Screening: Testing Early for Cholesterol (www.nytimes.com)
 Hypercholesterolemia has an established link with a risk of cardiac events and there has been a push to screen high risk population for early intervention in an effort to reduce the incidence of heart attacks and strokes, for example. However to suggest any benefit from screening babies is to...
Glen McDaniel, MS, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer
Glen McDaniel, MS, MBA, President and Chief Executive Officer
GM Global
Analysis of: Senators seek private equity nursing home probe (www.reuters.com)
Recently there has been a rash of takeover of publicly owned nursing homes by private equity firms flush with cash. There is a concomitant suspicion now that quality is being compromised systematically in these institutions in order to maximize profits. It's important to ascertain if this is so. If...

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