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Posted August 28, 2007
CMS regulations penalize hospitals for taking care of sickest patients
Analysis of: New Medicare Regulations Adopted To Reduce Certain Hospital Infections And Medical Errors | www.medicalnewstoday.com
Author: Forrest Rubenstein, Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgeon Rubenstein Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
This article presents the new CMS guidelines that deny higher payments for the additional costs associated with treating patients for certain hospital - acquired infections and medical errors. While these are laudable goals, to assume that all infections are the result of poor medical practice is an...
Posted August 28, 2007
Retail drugstore clinics - filling a niche ?
Analysis of: Drugstore Clinics Spread, and Scrutiny Grows | www.nytimes.com
Author: Forrest Rubenstein, Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgeon Rubenstein Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
   Several large drugstores are establishing retail medical clinics within their stores much as eyeglass stores have had optomitrists on site.  There is no problem with these clinics per se as long as they practice within the scope of the practitioners license and skill.  There are...
Posted August 28, 2007
This coud ne a Panora's Box
Analysis of: New Medicare Regulations Adopted To Reduce Certain Hospital Infections And Medical Errors | www.medicalnewstoday.com
Author: Michael Bain, Plastic and Reconstructive Physician Michael A Bain, MD
If a patient gets a bedsore, who pays for it? Most importantly, what does this mean to KCI and the other wound companies? Where will it end?
Robert Forster Posted August 27, 2007
Retail medical clinics are a welcomed addition to our current medical delivery model
Analysis of: Drugstore Clinics Spread, and Scrutiny Grows | www.nytimes.com
Author: Robert Forster, Healthcare Consultant Robert Forster, MD
Retail clinics are health care centers of limited low risk services staffed most commonly by masters in primary care level nationally certificated Nurse Practioners who have provided primary care to millions of Americans for 40 years without issues of Quality by all evidence based studies. This...
Frederic Goldstein Posted August 27, 2007
State Medicaid Formulary Committees and Potential Conflicts of Interest - Pharmaceutical Companies and Physician Relationships
Analysis of: Financial ties found between drug companies and Medicaid advisory committee | www.kansascity.com
Author: Frederic Goldstein, President and Chief Operating Officer U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc.
Members on State Drug/Formulary Advisory Committees have oversight of hundreds of millions of dollars in expenditures.  It is now coming to light that some providers on these committees have been reimbursed large sums by pharmaceutical manufacturers. This potential conflict of interest will receive...
Posted August 27, 2007
Bush administraton prioritizes health plans over nation's health
Analysis of: New Bush Policies Limit Reach of Child Insurance Plan | www.washingtonpost.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
The recent decision of the Bush Administration to curtail the scope of the Children's Health insureance plan will have three main outcomes: 1) An increase in the number of uninsured and under-insured children (imagine a family of four earning less than $60K in a metropolitan area, not receiving health...
Posted August 27, 2007
New Medicare guidelines punish side-effects of therapy, not treatment errors
Analysis of: New Medicare Regulations Adopted To Reduce Certain Hospital Infections And Medical Errors | www.medicalnewstoday.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
The new Medicare guidelines -- which restrict reimbursement for cases in which "preventable" complications occur -- does not distinguish between what is a truly "preventable error" and what is a more or less accepted rate of complication for somewhat risky procedures.  The fact that doctors and...
Posted August 27, 2007
The Move of All Government Managed Health Care to Managed Care Organization
Analysis of: Medicaid moving to managed care plans | www.goupstate.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
With skyrocketing enrollment nubers due to immagration and the "Graying of America", Federal and State Health Care Agencies will be compelled to move patients to managed care.
Posted August 27, 2007
CMS policies - Not what the doctor ordered
Analysis of: New Medicare Regulations Adopted To Reduce Certain Hospital Infections And Medical Errors | www.medicalnewstoday.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
CMS's latests decision to not reimburse hospitals for medical errors and hospital acquired infections has been widely discussed on these newsgroups.   Simpy put, while medical errors and infections are unfortunate and can have adverse consequences, the key here is which of these events could...
Posted August 27, 2007
A BIG case of "conflicts of interest"
Analysis of: Drugstore Clinics Spread, and Scrutiny Grows | www.nytimes.com
Author: GLG Member Program Contributor
Delf Referal Lack of continuity of care However, Cheaper and Faster, more easlit accessible. It takes one big mistake to shut them down. Diagnosis is not that simple. After all not all Flu like symptoms are Flu!!!!!
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