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1. California Share of Cost, Weight Loss And Physical Activity Improve Symptoms Of GERD California Share of Cost, Weight Loss And Physical Activity Improve Symptoms Of GERD: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a debilitating problem for sufferers — heartburn, difficulty swallowing, chest pain and acid reflux....
2. 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 […]...
3. New Cardiac Surgery Programs Established From 1993 To 2004 Led To Little Increased Access, Substantial Duplication Of Services New Cardiac Surgery Programs Established From 1993 To 2004 Led To Little Increased Access, Substantial Duplication Of Services ...
4. Analysis of Medicare Advantage HMOs Compared With Traditional Medicare Shows Lower Use of Many Services Analysis of Medicare Advantage HMOs Compared With Traditional Medicare Shows Lower Use of Many Services ...
5. Share of Cost, Gastric Bypass Cuts Diabetes, Cardiovascular, Health Risks Share of Cost, Gastric Bypass Cuts Diabetes, Cardiovascular, Health Risks...
6. Share of Cost, New Rules to Require Equal Visitation Rights for All Hospital Patients Share of Cost, New Rules to Require Equal Visitation Rights for All Hospital Patients: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued new rules for Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals that protect patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner.  The rules require hospitals […]...
7. Lessons For The New CMS Innovation Center From The Medicare Health Support Program The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act establishes a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The center is intended to enhance the CMS’s role in promoting much-needed improvements in payment and service delivery. Lessons from the Medicare Health Support Program, a chronic care pilot program […]...
8. How The Center For Medicare And Medicaid Innovation Should Test Accountable Care Organizations [Payment & Delivery] The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act establishes a national voluntary program for accountable care organizations (ACOs) by January 2012 under the auspices of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The act also creates a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in the CMS. We propose that the CMS allow flexibility and tiers […]...
9. Share of Cost, Chronic Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease – Medication And Surgery Equally Effective Laparoscopic antireflux surgery or taking proton pump inhibitor esomeprazole for chronic GERD (chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease) were both found to result in similar rates of disease remission of five years, researchers from Nantes University, France, reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association)....
10. 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 […]...
11. Airway Function Improves Following Anti-Reflux Surgery Both Before And After Lung Transplant Airway Function Improves Following Anti-Reflux Surgery Both Before And After Lung Transplant...
12. What do I need to know if I want to buy a Medigap policy? What do I need to know if I want to buy a Medigap policy?...
13. Grants Announced for University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research & Service (UCEDD) – Application Deadline February 15 Grants Announced for University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research & Service (UCEDD) - Application Deadline February 15...
14. Medicare And Medicaid Spending Variations are Strongly Linked Within Hospital Regions But Not at Overall State Level Medicare And Medicaid Spending Variations are Strongly Linked Within Hospital Regions But Not at Overall State Level...
15. Steps To Reduce Favorable Risk Selection In Medicare Advantage Largely Succeeded Within Medicare, the Medicare Advantage program has historically attracted better risks—healthier, lower-cost patients—than has traditional Medicare. The disproportionate enrollment of lower-cost patients and avoidance of higher-cost ones during the 1990s—known as favorable selection—resulted in Medicare’s spending more per beneficiary who enrolled in Medicare Advantage than if the enrollee had remained in traditional Medicare. A looked […]...