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Studies and briefs in this week's roundup come from the New England Journal of Medicine, the Urban Institute, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, the Commonwealth Fund, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Mathematica and the British Medical Journal.
Project will involve training and mentoring for physician organizations and hospitals.
An association of California hospitals has proposed creating a foundation to supply doctors to at least 20 of its 160 members, with more likely to join if the project takes off.
Government recovered $2.5 billion in efforts to stop Medicare fraud.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about Democrats' "health reform fatigue" and Republicans' skepticism regarding White House claims that reform's implementation phase is going smoothly.
The Senate panel's questions regarding how some home health care provider companies bill Medicare made company shareholders nervous, though analysts don't expect that "significant wrongdoing" will be uncovered, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Republicans have begun attacking Donald Berwick, a doctor and Harvard professor nominated to head the Obama administration's Medicare and Medicaid agency.
The Justice Department released a statement yesterday defending the federal health overhaul law from legal critics who claim that the individual mandate requiring Americans to purchase insurance is unconstitutional.
Kaiser Health News reports that the new health reform law guarantees insurance companies must cover emergency care at hospitals in- or out-of-network at the same rate, and other news outlets examine other health reform implementation issues.
A selection of today's opinions and editorials
"India and Brazil launched a trade dispute against the European Union and the Netherlands on Wednesday, saying their seizures of generic drugs were hurting healthcare in poor countries and disrupting international trade," Reuters reports. "India said the repeated seizures were based on allegations of the infringement of intellectual property rights in the country of transit, even though the generic drugs in question were legal in their countries of origin and destination," according to the news service.
The budget estimate in Indiana for how much the federal health reform law could cost the state is causing political ripples in the state, leading one lawmaker to suggest dropping the program altogether.
A recent report (.pdf) by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) and Oxfam International warns "that the global campaign to vaccinate children in poor countries is being hampered by high prices and is facing an acute funding crisis," BMJ News reports.
TIME reports on the recent efforts of a "young Florida businessman" who started a project "to collect a million shirts and send them to poor people in Africa." The project elicited a range of responses from people in the aid world who have been debating "the best and worst ways to deliver charity, or whether to give at all." The magazine examines these different perspectives.
On Wednesday, ahead of a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed several topics in a "speech warning that leaders of the G8 and G20 countries should not use global economic and financial difficulties as 'an excuse' to neglect previous pledges of billions of dollars for the world's poor
"Arab countries need to invest some $144 billion in agriculture over the next 20 years to meet the food demands of the growing population, an Arab agricultural organization has said," the Media Line/All Headline News reports in a piece that examines the contributing factors to gaps in food security in the region.
Sens. Blanche Lincoln and some other lawmakers are facing still fights to retain their party's nomination for their own seats as they spend time defending their records and health care positions from the left.
Meanwhile, a Senate panel probes several home therapy companies.
The Hill reports that House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., said Wednesday that groups pressing for $14 billion more in funding for education, health and labor proposals will likely be disappointed because the budget proposed by the president already faces cuts of about $3.5 billion in those areas.
State Roundup: Schwarzenegger plan expected to call for dismantling some health care programs; small businesses in Mass. oppose plan to shift children's developmental costs; Texas prison health services in peril.
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