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Adam Fein Posted September 21, 2007
Cardinal Health Gets Closer to Alliance Boots
Analysis of: Alliance Boots, Cardinal Health Announce Joint Sourcing and Marketing Agreement | biz.yahoo.com
Author: Adam Fein, Founder & President Pembroke Consulting Inc
Cardinal Health (CAH) and Alliance Boots (AB) just announced an agreement to bring AB’s Almus brand of generic drugs to the U.S. market. This agreement could be merely routine – or the beginning of a very significant combination.
Posted September 17, 2007
What's Behind the Almost Tripling in Serious Adverse Drug Events?
Analysis of: Serious Adverse Drug Events Reported to the Food and Drug Administration, 1998-2005 | archinte.ama-assn.org
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
From 1998 through 2005, reported serious adverse drug events increased 2.6 fold from 34,966 to 89,842, and fatal adverse drug events increased 2.7 fold from 5519 to 15,107.  Reported serious events increased four times faster than the total number of outpatient prescriptions during that period. ...
Posted September 14, 2007
Uncompensated Care Effects Earnings. Catastrophic Insurance on the wain.
Analysis of: Cancer Society Focuses Its Ads on the Uninsured | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Specialist and hospital systems are at increasing risk on uncompensated care given the growth of Scheduled Benefit Plans and the uninsured. One strategy to combate the uncompensated catastrophic claim is to assimilate "facilities-intensive specialits". Inspired hospital system leadership will assimilate...
Posted September 14, 2007
Diagnostic Systems Serve as Physician Memory Boosters
Analysis of: For Doctors, Diagnosing Gets a Technological Boost | www.usatoday.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
With the sum total of medical knowledge doubling every two years, there is no way that any physician can keep up with the latest in diagnostic and therapeutic medicine. Nevertheless, with ever more inventive plaintiffs' attorneys and their medical experts, that is exactly what physicians feel that they...
Adam Fein Posted September 13, 2007
Hype vs. Research in Reimbursement Policy
Analysis of: Prescription drug payment times by Medicare Part D plans | www.pharmacist.com
Author: Adam Fein, Founder & President Pembroke Consulting Inc
I recently posted A Misleading Study on Pharmacy Reimbursement (Council Site), a critique of a new study describing pharmacy reimbursements under the Medicare Part D program. The full research paper from the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association is now available. Based on an objective look...
Posted September 13, 2007
Turning and turning and back to ground zero
Analysis of: Medical costs up again | www.mercurynews.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
  The most ones who are  profiting from all this are the health  care institutions but there will be more restrictions on the service they will be providing to their patients and patients will be paying more co-pyments. Costs cannot be reduced but stabilized by increasing  supply...
Posted September 13, 2007
Has this Court Opened Pandora's Box for Physicians?
Analysis of: Ruling may unlock Key Data on Doctors | www.latimes.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
A consumer group won a court case last month that would require the Bush Administration to release physician claims data in four states and the District of Columbia.  The decision, reported in the August 30th online edition of the "LA Times", could help the public evaluate Medicare and physician...
Robert Frank Posted September 13, 2007
Credit crunch may effect healthcare financing
Analysis of: Doctors Offering No-Interest Loans to Patients | www.nytimes.com
Author: Robert Frank, Owner Aria Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery
Changes in the credit market, specifically the subprime market, may impact companies clamoring to finance elective healthcare and cosmetic procedures. This may impact the number of patients ultimately undergoing these expensive procedures.
Adam Fein Posted September 12, 2007
A Misleading Study on Pharmacy Reimbursement
Analysis of: University of Texas Study Details Lengthy Payment Delays for Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Claims, Confirming Need for Legislative Fix | www.prnewswire.com
Author: Adam Fein, Founder & President Pembroke Consulting Inc
The independent pharmacy lobby is touting the results of a new study that purports to provide “incontrovertible evidence of the slow reimbursement pharmacies have endured with Medicare Part D prescription drug claims.”  I strongly disapprove of the manner in which this study’s results are being...
Posted September 10, 2007
Lung Cancer Junkies take note!
Analysis of: Definitive Chemoradiation for the Treatment of Locally Advanced Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer | jco.ascopubs.org
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
     Various combinations of chemotherapy, molecular targeting agents as well as radiation therapy are under study. Which one will carry the day???
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