Hospital-Owned Practices Winning Over Physicians
The Connecticut Mirror reports on this workforce trend in which doctors give up ownership of their own small practices in order to join larger group practices.
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The Connecticut Mirror reports on this workforce trend in which doctors give up ownership of their own small practices in order to join larger group practices.
In other Medicare news, legislation has been introduced in the Senate to open a Medicare claims database.
ProPublica reports on a "blunt assessment" of American preparedness.
A letter from the office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., urges HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to include such care in the health law's essential benefits package, despite budget pressures looming in Congress.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including stories about the partisan negotiations surrounding a current-year spending bill as well as developments related to Medicare.
Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) "called climate change a bigger public health threat than AIDS, malaria and pandemic flu" before a vote on Wednesday on a bill aimed at thwarting Environmental Protection Agency climate regulations, The Hill's "E2-Wire" blog reports.
House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget blueprint, which was released earlier this week, would significantly cut the international affairs budget for FY12 and increase those cuts over the next four years, Foreign Policy's "The Cable" reports, noting that Ryan's budget also would increase "the defense budget by 14 percent over the same timeframe" (Rogin, 4/6).
The German government on Wednesday said it would provide an extra 14 million euros or about $19.9 million "for child immunization in the developing world as part of an agreement with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation," the Associated Press reports (4/6).
U.N. officials on Thursday marked World Health Day with a warning that "the misuse and irrational use of antibiotics has undermined the global fight against tuberculosis and malaria, warning of a possible return to the days before the drugs were developed," and called for urgent action to control the spread of drug resistance, Reuters reports. In addition to growing resistance to TB and malaria treatments, "treatment for gonorrhea was threatened by growing resistance to the last-line treatment, and the WHO said hospital-acquired superbugs, resistant to major antibiotics, were becoming increasing frequent," the news service writes (Mogato, 4/7).
The GOP budget proposal's Medicare provisions continue to draw scrutiny and debate about what the program's future should look like, how the plan would change senior citizens' health care costs and what its political implications might be.
If lawmakers fail to reach agreement on the 2011 budget, the government will shut down at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Federal agencies have contingency plans in place in the event this happens. Media outlets report that Medicare and Medicaid would operate normally in the short run.
A selection of opinions, editorials and analyses from around the country.
The New England Journal of Medicine today features perspectives from prominent authors on Medicare and Medicaid. NEJM granted KHN permission to excerpt substantial portions of these columns.
Today's roundup of interesting longer stories includes reports from Mother Jones, Salon, National Review, Congressional Quarterly, The Root, American Medical News and Hospitals & Health Networks.
Today's news reports come from California, Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio and Texas.
News outlets report on strategies and trends regarding research and development as well as drug pricing.
In related news, Politico Pro reports that five leading health systems announced a plan to partner in sharing electronic health records. These systems note that the ability to share patient data with EHRs is key to success in creating ACOs.
The research, which was published in the journal Health Affairs, used new tools to find that as many as one in three people in the U.S. will experience some type of mistake during a hospital stay.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports that the House Budget Committee yesterday approved the Ryan plan, which includes provisions to reshape Medicare and Medicaid, by a party-line vote.
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