All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Healthcare Services

I published an article this month (Aug 07) in the Lancet Infectious Diseases which argues for government reimburement for infection control in hospitals and other clinical settings.  Kevin Outterson

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...

   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...

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...