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1. Diabetes Patients Who Undergo Bariatric Surgery Require Fewer Medications Type 2 diabetes patients who underwent bariatric surgery appear to require significantly less medication and incur considerably lower health costs, says a report published in this month’s issue of Archives of Surgery, a JAMA/Archives journal. Bariatric surgery is a surgical procedure on the stomach and/or intestines to help extremely obese people lose weight – it […]...
2. Public Reporting On Hospital Process Improvements Is Linked To Better Patient Outcomes The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services publicly reports so-called process performance at all U.S. hospitals, such as whether certain recommended treatments are given to specific types of patients. We examined whether hospital performance on key process indicators improved during the three years since this reporting began. We also studied whether or not these changes […]...
3. Share of Cost, Surgeons Train On The First FDA-Approved Total Artificial Heart For Transplant Patients Share of Cost, Surgeons Train On The First FDA-Approved Total Artificial Heart For Transplant Patients: A 13-member surgical team from the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center completed the first phase of training to implant a new total artificial heart designed to completely replace the heart’s function while the patient waits for a heart transplant. […]...
4. Medicare’s Policy Not To Pay For Treating Hospital-Acquired Conditions: The Impact In 2008 Medicare stopped reimbursing hospitals for treating eight avoidable hospital-acquired conditions. Using 2006 California data, we modeled the financial impact of this policy on six such conditions. Hospital-acquired conditions were present in 0.11 percent of acute inpatient Medicare discharges; only 3 percent of these were affected by the policy. Payment reductions were negligible (0.001 […]...
5. Share of Cost, Esophageal Cancer Risk Lower Than Expected For GERD Patients Share of Cost, The risk of esophageal cancer among patients who suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is not as high as many may think, according to new research from University of Michigan gastroenterologists. GERD is considered a relative risk for developing esophageal adenocarcinoma, but the absolute risk is not known, says Joel Rubenstein, M.D., […]...
6. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wants Public Comments on Rules Relating to Hearing Aid Compatibility of Wireless Handsets – Comment Deadline February 14 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Wants Public Comments on Rules Relating to Hearing Aid Compatibility of Wireless Handsets – Comment Deadline February 14...
7. Share of Cost, Mass. Docs Will Soon Track Patients Who Abuse Prescription Drugs; Wis. Catholic Church Employees Now Eligible For Birth Control The Boston Globe: “With a few computer keystrokes, Massachusetts physicians will soon be able to identify patients who travel from clinic to clinic in pursuit of potent prescription drugs that feed lethal addictions....
8. Share of Cost, For Acid Reflux Disease Patients, Esophageal Cancer Risk Lower Than Expected Share of Cost, The risk of esophageal cancer among patients who suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is not as high as many may think, according to new research from University of Michigan gastroenterologists. GERD is considered a relative risk for developing esophageal adenocarcinoma, but the absolute risk is not known, says Joel Rubenstein, M.D., […]...
9. County Welfare Department Generally Determines SOC Amount Generally, a subscriber’s SOC is determined by the county welfare department and is based on the amount of income a subscriber receives in excess of “maintenance need” levels.  Medi-Cal rules require that subscribers pay income in excess of their “maintenance need” level toward their own medical bills before Medi-Cal begins to pay....
10. Oregon Share of Cost, Join Neutrogena’s Wave For Change And Help Raise Up To $200,000 For Disaster Relief, Education And Environmental Charities Oregon Share of Cost, Join Neutrogena’s Wave For Change And Help Raise Up To $200,000 For Disaster Relief, Education And Environmental Charities: Understanding teens’ determination and passion for change, Neutrogena, the #1 dermatologist-recommended skin care brand, is launching Wave for Change, a charitable campaign that makes it easy for teens everywhere to not only give […]...
11. Share of Cost, Study Shows Promise For New Drug To Treat Fragile X The first drug to treat the underlying disorder instead of the symptoms of Fragile X, the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability, shows some promise according to a new study published in the January issue of Science Translational Medicine. Researchers from Rush University Medical Center helped design the study and are now participating in […]...