Congressional Hearing Explores Medicare Payment Issues, Including Permanent ‘Doc Fix’
Doctors continued to face 21.3 percent lower payments this week, despite a Senate bill that passed Friday, the same day the cuts took effect, to avert them.
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Doctors continued to face 21.3 percent lower payments this week, despite a Senate bill that passed Friday, the same day the cuts took effect, to avert them.
Rookie doctors would get shorter shifts and more supervision if new guidelines proposed by the body that accredits medical residency programs go into effect.
"Three or fewer companies dominate the market in every state except New York" for Medicare Advantage plans, the Associated Press reports.
Richard Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general, announced an investigation of CVS Caremark after the corporation threatened to terminate a discount prescription drug program to customers there, Dow Jones Newswires/The Wall Street Journal reports.
"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is the first agency to use a new fraud mapping tool that ultimately will be used throughout the federal government," Gov Info Security reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including the latest on action in the Senate regarding the Medicare "doc fix" and Medicaid assistance for states as well as developments across the health care marketplace.
President Barack Obama warned a dozen large insurers not to use the health overhaul law as a rationale for boosting premium rates at a White House meeting Tuesday.
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced 196 pages of new regulations in a White House ceremony aimed at easing the public's worries about the effects of the overhaul.
The NIH on Tuesday announced a partnership with Wellcome Trust and the African Society for Human Genetics that will enable African researchers to "use the latest genetic and clinical technology to study common health problems, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and other diseases," VOA News reports (DeCapua, 6/22).
Roll Call honed in on some Washington gossip Tuesday.
Through the lens of health conditions faced by people in Mbarara, Uganda, Miller-McCune examines the debate over redistributing some foreign aid funds from HIV/AIDS to fight other diseases.
"Thirty years after the first treaty on women's rights was adopted by the United Nations, millions of cases involving beatings, marital rapes, honor killings and genital mutilation lead to deaths, medical injuries, failed pregnancies, abortions and psychological damage," according to a GlobalPost article that reports on the rising number of individuals, communities and governments worldwide who are committing to end violence against women.
Kaiser Health News presents a selection of Tuesday's opinions and editorials from around America.
Poverty rates in 10 African countries have been halved over the last two decades, while child mortality rates have gone up in six sub-Saharan African countries, according to a report (.pdf) from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the U.N. Millennium Campaign, which emphasized that progess towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is possible, the Associated Press/St. Petersburg Times reports (Straziuso, 6/22).
The method doctors use to report their efforts to prevent post-surgical infections, does not accurately reflect outcomes, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The FDA inspected 0.7 percent of foreign clinical drug trial sites in 2008 while 80 percent of applications approved for marketing that year contained data from foreign drug trials, according to a report (.pdf) from the Inspector General of HHS, CBS News reports (Strickler, 6/22).
Commonwealth Fund study finds that "Americans spend twice as much as residents of other developed countries on healthcare, but get lower quality, less efficiency and have the least equitable system," Reuters reports.
States address a range of health care policy issues.
As funding from the federal stimulus bill ebbs, states get ready to face a new squeeze in Medicaid funding.
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